Quotes About Time

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

The great mystery of life is the length of it.