Quotes About Time

Life really is very brief.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.