Quotes About Time

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

If the generations of man passed through the world like a ship passing through the sea and the wind over the desert—a fruitless and a vain thing; if eternal oblivion were ever greedily watching for its prey and there existed no power strong enough to wrest it from its clutches—how empty were life then, and how dismal!

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it.

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

Listen to the time as it can heal everything.

No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you.

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Let all live as they would die.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

I view my time in politics as a chapter, not my life.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.