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Quotes About Time

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
~ Haruki Murakami
Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.
~ Heather Dorff
Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
~ Helen McCrory
Even if one's whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
~ Henry Miller
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
~ Hermann Hesse
Life is short and the art long.
~ Hippocrates
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
~ Hugh Prather
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
~ James A. Baldwin
Life is too short to read inferior books.
~ James Bryce
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
~ Jane Austen
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
~ Jean Paul
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Life was a pre-death experience.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Don't wait until life has given you an expiration date to live.
~ Jennifer Aniston
When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.
~ Jerold Panas
Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.
~ Joel Osteen
We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.
~ John Mayer
Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
~ John Updike
You can't get fit in one workout, just as you can't live your life in one day.
~ Johnny G
When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.
~ Jonas Jonasson
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
~ Joseph Brodsky
My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
~ Julia Golding
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
~ Julian Barnes