Quotes About Time

All those people who came into the world with me and have already left it.

What is this, fundamentally? What is its nature and substance, its reason for being? What is it doing in the world? How long is it here for?

49. Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?

47. Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow "or the day after." Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn't kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.

If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there's still time.

Come tutte le cose rapidamente svaniscano, nel cosmo i corpi stessi, nel tempo il loro ricordo;

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.

Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part, and of what administrator of the universe thy existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return.

32. You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind—things that exist only there—and clear out space for yourself: … by comprehending the scale of the world … by contemplating infinite time … by thinking of the speed with which things change—each part of every thing; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite time before; the equally unbounded time that follows.

32. The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity. The fraction of all substance, and all spirit. The fraction of the whole earth you crawl about on. Keep all that in mind, and don't treat anything as important except doing what your nature demands, and accepting what Nature sends you. 33.

Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

Soon you will have forgotten all things: soon all things will have forgotten you.

every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.

present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.

There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

All is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us—how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space—and most of it uninhabited

Cuántos de los agasajados con muchos himnos están ya entregados al olvido! ¡Cuántos de los que hicieron esos himnos hace tiempo que están ausentes!

Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

If his mind is filled with nobility, with a grasp of all time, all existence, do you think our human life will mean much to him at all?' " Ã¢â'¬ËœHow could it?' he said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœOr death be very frightening?' " 'Not in the least.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou hast a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art.

there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if youdon't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

17. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.