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Quotes About Time

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
~ Lorrie Moore
When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I trust Life. I know it brings me everything that I need at the perfect time and in the perfect way.
~ Louise Hay
I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.
~ Lucinda Riley
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
~ Lucretius
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.
~ Lucretius
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
~ Lucretius
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
~ Lucretius
I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.
~ Lynn Redgrave
We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.
~ Madame de Stael
Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.
~ Madeleine Albright
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.
~ Madonna Ciccone
You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.
~ Magnus
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.
~ Marc Blucas
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
~ Margaret Atwood
The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
~ Margaret Ayer Barnes
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
~ Margaret Cho
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
~ Margaret Fuller
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
~ Margaret Fuller