Quotes About Time

[History is] petrified imagination.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

He only is rich who owns the day.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.