Quotes About Time

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.