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Quotes About Time

Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.
~ Richard Carlson
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?
~ Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.
~ Karen Kingsbury
Your heart can break at any age.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
~ Graham Swift, Tomorrow
Passion - eventually it cools.
~ Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
~ Faraaz Kazi
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
~ David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
~ Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
~ Fábio Moon, Daytripper
I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.
~ Meg Rosoff, What I Was
Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?
~ Lan Samantha Chang, Hunger
It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
~ Cheryl Strayed, Torch
I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.
~ Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
~ Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch
Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.
~ Peter S. Beagle
Not even old age knows how to love death.
~ Sophocles
I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.
~ Lil' Kim
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
~ Jo Nesbo
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
~ Abel Ferrara