Quotes About Time

Life is like being at dentist. You always think that the worst is yet to come, & yet it is over already.

Human engagement for the storage of information in opposition to death cannot be measured with the same scales used by the natural scientist. Carbon-dating tests measure the natural time according to the information loss of specific radioactive atoms. However, the artificial time of human freedom ("historical time") cannot be measured by simply turning carbon-dating formulas around, so that they now measure the accumulation of information.

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Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.

death by a thousand cuts to be drawn out over a period of years not months.

There's another familiar adage: "Every dog has his day." Well, Joe and most dogs I've known have not only their day but most of mine and parts of other people's, too. When the day isn't theirs, you'd better get them to the vet's. They're sick. So

Old books, yes! They are the true comforters; and principally because they are old and familiar. Many excellent new tales and poems and dramas are added yearly to the catalogues, and and some of these in time will stand beside the great companions under discussion; but only Time (and you and I and all other lovers of good books) will bring about their survival.

Time is flying never to return.

Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee)

and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.

Time passes irrevocably.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

Fugit irreparabile tempus.

Each man has his day, and the time of life is brief for all, and never comes again.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.

Ponto nox incubat atra.

Fracti bello fatisque repulsi ductores Danaum, tot iam labentibus annis, instar montis equum divina Palladis arte aedificant

A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.

To Romans I set no boundary in space or time. I have granted them dominion, and it has no end.

For each man his day stands fixed. For all mankind the days of life are few, and not to be restored. But to prolong fame by deeds, that is valour's task. (Hercules to Pallas)

Optima dies...prima fugit

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Ille admirans venerabile donum fatalis virgae, longo post tempore visum, caeruleam advertit puppim, ripaeque propinquat.