Quotes About Time

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

The work of memory collapses time.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.