Quotes About Time

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I'm getting. Not everyone is as lucky." I

Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't.

Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.

She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-delusion, and the truth enveloped her like a cocoon, and all she said was I was so lonely . And Father Time said, You were never alone.

Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. - Morrie

We're Tuesday people," he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled.

It's only horrible if you see it that way, Morrie said. It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye. He smiled. Not everyone is so lucky.

Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and now is my time to be seventy-eight.

I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.

Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.

the mystery of death is why it chooses a particular moment. With no earthly answer, coincidence can become conspiracy.

but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have

I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.

another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time.

Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer.

Everyone knows they're going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.