Quotes About Time

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are contentThat he held the proper opinions for the time of year;When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look.We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeatedMay say Alas but cannot help or pardon.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.

Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. (As I Walked Out One Evening)

Man is a tempted being, living with what he does and suffers in time, the medium in which he realizes his potential character. The indeterminacy of time means that events never happen once and for all. The good may fall, the bad may repent, and suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph.

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day.

We keep asking where they have gone those years we remember and we reach for them like hands in the night

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.