Quotes About Time

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.