Quotes About Time

A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.

Danger, long travel, want or woe, Soon change the form that best we know— For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair.

...the only possible good in the universe is happiness. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to try and make somebody else so.

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours.

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

God made time, but man made haste.

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for.

I don't have time to hate people who hate me because I'm too busy loving people who love me.

Come on inner peace — I don't have all day.

In our busy 21st century life the one commodity that seems to be going extinct is time and we forget that healing takes time.

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.

One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.

Time catalogues heartbreak as love poetry.

They say that time heals all wounds, but all it's done so far is give me more hours to think about how much I miss you.

History is the shadow of time; life its substance, and they bear the same relation to one another, that the dim twilight does to the up-risen and visible sun. It is in vain to talk to men of throwing their minds into the past, or into the future, you may as well bid them leap out of themselves, or beyond their shadow. The present is all in all to us.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

A cross-section of our society to-day represents the entire geological formation of human nature for 40,000 years. We need but look on the faces of the men about us as we go down the street. All history is here this minute.

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Along through the book I have distributed a few anachronisms and unborn historical incidents and such things, as to help the tale over the difficult places. This idea is not original with me; I got it out of Herodotus. Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

The true poetry of Rome lived in its institutions... from such a rhythm and order in the shows of life, to those who were at once the poets and the actors of these immortal dramas... the consequence was empire, and the reward everlasting fame. These things are not the less poetry... They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men. The Past, like an inspired rhapsodist, fills the theatre of everlasting generations with their harmony.

...the snail trail of history...