Quotes About Time

every person who is burning time and energy seeking justification is doing so at the expense of the contribution he or she could be making to the overall results of the company.

Alles, was uns Freude machen soll, ist an Zeit und Umstände gebunden, und was uns heute noch beglückt, ist morgen wertlos.

Nothing holds out these days, and next thing you know we'll be counting those who are famous by days.

criminals more readily than any other State would do, till the time comes

However you feel about maids' uniforms, we don't have time to overthrow the social order today.

My name is Carmilla," said the woman. "I've come from Mina, in Budapest. I think it's time you were rescued from this place. Don't you think?

now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. The victim of habit, when he has

Sometimes a single life will clearly and effectively illustrate a period. (from Vanity, Vanity Saith the Preacher)

I measure time by how a body sways.)

It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.

Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant, The burning lake turns into a forest pool, The fire subsides into rings of water, A sunlit silence.

I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.

I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be. — Theodore Roethke, from "She," Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964)

Much of poetry is an anguished waiting." — Theodore Roethke

And let the days go by, and let the time pass, and huddle beneath your impenetrable integument, and wait, and wait, and every once in a long while you will have that moment of lonely consciousness when there is no one around to see; and then it may burst from you and you may dance, or cry, or twist the hair on your head till your eyeballs blaze, or do any of the other things your so unfashionable nature thirstily demands.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Only the present moment contains life.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.