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Quotes About Time

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
~ John Dryden
Since heaven's eternal year is thine.
~ John Dryden
If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~ John Dryden
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
~ John Dufresne
At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's consulting room at the Sunny Isles Geriatric Clinic with my father, who was just then at a loss for words.
~ John Dufresne
In our youth-oriented culture, aging is feared, something to be put off as long as possible.It has been said:"Everyone wants to live a long time, but no one wants to grow old.
~ John Dunlop
That will be a time when mankind will become its own deity and will destroy the world.
~ John Dunne
The early shows had the breath of Victorian melodrama: the music had a tingling quality, of time running out or fate closing in. The narration enhanced it: … the hushed voice and the prowling step … the stir of nerves at the ticking of the clock … the rescue that might be too late, or the murderer who might get away … we invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in … Suspense
~ John Dunning
We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.
~ Che Guevara
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
~ Christopher Hitchens
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.
~ Craig Ferguson
I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.
~ D. M. Turner
If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
~ Derrick Jensen
Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
~ Dexter Scott King
A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.
~ Doug Larson
People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.
~ Dov Davidoff
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.
~ Elaine Cassidy
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
~ Eloisa James
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.
~ Emily Giffin
I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.
~ Emmylou Harris
I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
~ Gary Gilmore
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
~ George Eliot