Quotes About Time

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Actor's life is very long.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!