Quotes About Time

Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.