Quotes About Time

The greatest thing about a nap is that it gives you two days for the price of one. You have the whole day before the nap, and when you wake up you have a whole day ahead of you.

one character thought, was that they'd never had love and patience at the same time.

We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that they can never be undone; the ones they make thinking they can but learn they can't; and the ones they make thinking they can't and only later come to understand, when it's too late, when "nothing can be undone," that they could have.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

He longed for a minute that didn't matter: perhaps for time to take a nap or watch something silly on television without feeling guilt or regret. He needed relief from the feeling that he was wasting precious time, not the added pressure of life's greatest to-do list. I now realize that humans require down time. Quiet time is necessary to process all that happens to us on a daily basis—let alone over the course of a life.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

In spite of the variety of prophetic phenomenon in space (north, south, exile) and in time (premonarchial, monarchial, exilic, and postexilic), the prophets enjoyed the common bond with the past (the Mosaic revelation) and the future acts of God: the new era of God's coming, the transformation of all things, the judgment of the wicked, and the vindication of the righteous.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Oude mensen slijten harder dan hun kleren.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus,

I must die. If forthwith, I die; and if a little later, I will take lunch now,

remember that all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice.

Seneca observes that "chastity comes with time to spare, lechery has never a moment."11