Quotes About Time

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Life is the best and only timekeeper.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Welcome to the last 900 years of my life.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Out of many shared years. One life.