Quotes About Time

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.