Quotes About Time

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Every life is finite, Will.

Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

Striking from the CalendarUnborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.