Quotes About Time

Novels are longer than life.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

Truly life is wasted on the living.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.