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Quotes About Time

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.
~ Edmund Spenser
One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
~ Edouard Bourdet
Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
~ Edward Young
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
~ Edward Young
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
~ Edward Young
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
~ Edward Young
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
~ Edwin Land
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.
~ Edwin Way Teale
The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now.
~ Elaine Cassidy
Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.
~ Elaine Cassidy
God, how I have wasted my life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
~ Elizabeth McGovern
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
~ Elizabeth Strout
And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Very early in my life it was already too late.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
~ Emily Dickinson
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
~ Emily Dickinson
You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.
~ Emily Yoffe
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
~ Emma Donoghue
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
~ Emmylou Harris
I've got a great dislike of reunions. It's a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can't do it. Nothing is ever the same.
~ Eric Burdon
To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.
~ Eric Hoffer
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
~ Erica Jong