Quotes About Time

Stop dreaming of immortality. Live it instead, right where it exists, in the continual present.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

Life goes on within you and without you

All things must pass.

Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.

He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Thursday come, and the week is gone.

Spend not on hopes.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

History is always the interpretation of the present

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Days change so many things -- yes, hours -- we see so differently in suns and showers.

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

The shapes of time are the prey we want to capture

can still smile sometimes, but by the time this thing is over I may not be a nice person. And I just lit my seventy-seventh cigarette of this 21-hour day. I'm going to lay down for two or three hours, perhaps I'll sleep … Seize the Time.