Quotes About Time

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. —John Banville

You can't rewind life or undo things.

What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.

Here's what will happen to the dog," he said with exaggerated patience. "She'll be our pet for however long she's meant to be our pet. Nobody knows how long that's going to be.

the way you spend each day adds up to the way you spend your life.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic

Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart.

We don't realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow. —Amish proverb

A fawn eats the equivalent of its body weight every twenty-four hours." "How do you know that?" "Read it in a book. I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," she said with a superior sniff. "Hard

Because it would be worse than never having them in the first place. I just enjoy the time I'm given with the animals.

She could scarcely move at all. Her muscles felt impossibly weak. Her limbs were gummy worms. She looked at her hands. Looked at her mother. "Is that what happened to my manicure? It's gone because I've been asleep for a year? A whole freaking year? That's impossible." It was the kind of thing people passed around on the Internet—Woman Sleeps for a Year, Wakes Up Angry About Manicure.

She'd always thought a broken heart would heal with time. Now she knew the hurt only went deeper with each passing day.

life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She

Not a rule, but a reminder. We must live this day. We'll never get to live it again.

My grandmother used to always say, if you can't be on time, be early.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. ?Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more

Time and circumstances could batter away at it, like waves on a rocky shore, but for some people, love never died.

Will it matter in five years?

I suspect I shall love you, she wrote with a wry understanding, as long as you do me, at least, and perhaps a little bit longer.

In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.

For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed to him that his magicianship set him apart from other men. But now he had glimpsed the wrong side of something. He had the eeriest feeling - as if the world were growing older around him, and the best part of existence - laughter, love and innocence - were slipping irrevocably into the past.