Quotes About Time

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Live in day-tight compartments.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't get the fourth without it.

One should count each day a separate life.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

The longest day is soon ended.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.

Time is eternity begun.