Here today and gone tomorrow. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- A sound mind in a sound body.
- It is only the dead who do not return.
- Speak well of the dead.
- There is a remedy for all things but death.
- Health is better than wealth.
- A man can die but once.
- What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
- Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
- Death is the grand leveller.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Arthur himself had but his time.
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Death keeps no calendar.
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Today gold, tomorrow dust.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Omnia mors poscit; lex est, non poena perire.
Death demands everything; it is a law, not a punishment, to perish.
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Stat sua cuique dies...
To each his own day...
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Longius aut propius, mors sua quemque manet.
Farther or nearer, death remains to each one.
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Omnes eodem cogimur.
We are all compelled by the same thing.
French
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Rien n'est plus certain que la mort, rien n'est plus incertain que l'heure de la mort.
Nothing is more certain than death, nothing more uncertain than the hour of death.
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Mort n'épargne ni petit, ni grand.
Death spares neither small nor large.
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Autant meurt veau que vache.
Might as well die calf as cow.
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Aussitôt meurent jeunes que vieux.
No sooner die young than old.
German
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Heute rot, morgen tot.
Red today, dead tomorrow.
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Der Tod kommt ungeladen.
Death comes uninvited.
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Der Tod braucht keinen Kalender.
Death does not need a calendar.
Czech
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Každý má svůj čas.
Everyone has their time.
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Rok má krok a život v patách smrt.
The year has a step and life on the heels of death.
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V hrob se i největší vměstná.
Even the largest can fit in a grave.
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Dnes jsme zde — zítra kde.
Today we are here - tomorrow where.
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Dneska žijem, zítra hnijem.
Today we live, tomorrow we rot.
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Každý smrti daň zaplatí.
Everyone pays the death tax.
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Rakev každého změří.
The coffin will measure everyone.
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Smrt cestu najde.
Death will find a way.