Quotes About Time

we better be living the life we want to live and not wasting our numbered days on what doesn't matter.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; he hoped that they would excuse it.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor!

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects

Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

There is no time like the very early morning for subtle and mysterious deeds.

When I tell people about the blooms, about how they open around nine and close before sunrise and do this just for one night, they always ask, Is that all? Yes. That's all.