Time & Perspective Quote by Brian Lumley

Mortality is doing the quiet heckling here, and Brian Lumley lets it speak in plain language rather than gothic flourish. The line starts with a traveler’s inventory - undone things, unseen places - but the real subject is the shrinking window in which a life can still be revised. The repetition of "time" works like a tightening knot: first as a scheduling problem ("find time"), then as a finite resource ("while there still is time"). That pivot is the sentence’s trick. It turns aspiration into urgency without melodrama.

Coming from a horror writer best known for cosmic dread and the long shadow of consequence, the quote reads like a private aside from someone who’s spent a career imagining what happens when humans underestimate the limits placed on them. Instead of monsters, the antagonist is the calendar. "Eventually" is doing a lot of work, too: it’s the word people use to domesticate anxiety, to pretend desire can be postponed safely. Lumley undercuts that comfort by immediately adding the deadline clause.

The intent feels less like bucket-list sentimentality and more like a warning against professional and personal tunnel vision. Writers, especially prolific ones, can live inside projects for decades, mistaking productivity for fullness. Lumley’s phrasing suggests an awareness that art is not a substitute for experience - and that the cost of deferring life is paid all at once, at the end, when "eventually" runs out.