Quotes About Time

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Now or never was the time.

No wonder can last more than three days.

A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.

When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into 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 earn the fourth without it.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

Youth will be served.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable.

Age 39. — It's weird, when you're 39 it starts to happen...