Quotes About Time

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter's day.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

Every second is of infinite value.

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.