Quotes About Time

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Treasure every single moment you spend with someone you care about.