Quotes About Time

It is in suffering that we are withdrawn from the sway of time and mere things, and find ourselves in the presence of profounder truth.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Rome was not built in one day.

Haste maketh waste.

The tide tarrieth no man.

A dog hath a day.

Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.

We and the trees and the way Back from the fields of play Lasted as long as we could. No more walks in the wood.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you

In the end, we all inherit a stone, after life's waves have rolled over us—and hopefully, she'll write upon it