Quotes About Time

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

I'm not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.

Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.