Quotes About Time

Overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of our lives, we turn to technology to help us find time. But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself.

Sometimes you don't have time for your friends except if they're online," is a common complaint.

We have the here and now," Ryan said. "In the end, that's all any of us have. The past is over, if not forgotten, and hating's a waste of time and energy. The future's out there, and the way it goes depends on what we do today. Maggie taught me that.

bad that the lesson had come too late for the two of them.

Life has a way of getting away from you. Seems to me it's always better to get things out there and deal with them.

The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their

reasons that one generation must give way to the next, as made clear in another of the letters Jefferson wrote to the equally venerable John Adams near the end of his life: "There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.

To the wise advice that we live every day as though it will be our last, we do well to add the admonition to live every day as though we will be on this earth forever.

The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

It take time to understand things that happen in life. Life unfolds slowly in the mind.

The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

A man should not marry after thirty years of age; should not enter the government service after the age of forty; should not have any more children after the age of fifty; and should not travel after the age of sixty. That is because the proper time for those things has passed.

The feeling of love remains until we forget about the other.

I was given my life, some two and a half billion seconds: I did some reckoning, and I decided to do something with those seconds so that I might make a difference.

you can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.

It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone.

Five decades ago, some very kind people in Japan slipped me the secret: you can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.

Enlightenment is not a peak from which you descend over time. It is a plateau from which you ascend, further and further as the months, years, and decades pass.