Time & Perspective Quote by Buffalo Bill

Mortality usually gets poetry; Buffalo Bill gives you a shrug and an idiom. "I began to think my time had come, as the saying is" reads like a man narrating his own near-death scene while keeping one eye on the audience. The key move is that little safety latch at the end: "as the saying is". It turns a potentially raw confession into something prepackaged, familiar, repeatable. Cody doesn’t claim original terror; he borrows a communal phrase and lets it do the heavy lifting.

That’s not just modesty. It’s brand management. Buffalo Bill was a celebrity built on the performance of danger - the frontier hero who survives the ambush, the stampede, the "last chance". If he admits fear directly, the myth wobbles; if he routes it through a folksy cliché, he stays relatable without looking vulnerable. The line performs calm under pressure, even if the calm is partly theatrical.

There’s also a quietly modern media instinct here: the quote anticipates retelling. It’s shaped like copy that can travel, the kind of sentence a reporter can drop into a column without needing to translate. Subtextually, it’s the voice of a man who’s lived inside narrative so long that even his brush with death arrives already captioned.

In Buffalo Bill’s era, celebrity and legend were soldered together in public, and death was both a real threat and a selling point. This line sits right on that seam: intimate enough to tease the human, generic enough to protect the icon.