There is a Goeika (Buddhist hymn) composed by the priest Honen at the tenth of twenty-five sacred sites which reads "If you leave for the Pure Land as early as possible, you will be able to reach there by the time you die."
法然上人二十五霊跡第十番、御詠歌「極楽へつとめて早く出でたたば身の終わりには参りつきなん」