Quotes About Time

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.