Quotes About Time

Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there's nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice.

We must hold to the conviction that it is the nature of truth to prevail when its time has come, and that it appears only when this time has come, and therefore never appears prematurely, nor finds a public not ripe to receive it; also we must accept that the individual needs that this should be so in order to verify what is as yet a matter for himself alone, and to experience the conviction, which in the first place belongs only to a particular individual, as something universally held.

the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.

The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be.

Prirodzený ?as, dokedy ?udský živo?ích pociÃ…Â¥uje lásku ku svojim potomkom, je Å¡esÃ…Â¥ rokov.

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National Institute of Pancakes: It reads, and I quote, Fuck waffles.

Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

In Baltimore it's 6:42!