Quotes About Time

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

Lately I've been anxious about pretty much everything. Even little things like making small commitments have left me paralyzed. I've become cautious, afraid of taking risks and making mistakes because I've made so many already and I fear I won't have time to clean up the mistakes anymore.

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right; people didn't use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

Plus vieux, tu comprendras que, malgré les apparences, il n'y a pas de bon ou mauvais moment. Il y a un moment, point final.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.

Better than never having loved at all. The real moral of the story is that you should take love when and where you can find it because none of us know how long we have left.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

Nobody, nothingever gave megreater thingthan timeunless lightand silencewhich if intensemakes sound

What horror to awake at night and in the dimness see the light. Time is white mosquitoes bite I've spent my life on nothing. The thought that stings. How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife. Buzz and burn is all I learn I've spent my life on nothing. I'm pillowed and padded, pale and puffing lifting household stuffing— carpets, dishes benches, fishes I've spent my life in nothing.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Memories don't age

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old... you wish for things from the past to

in time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting

At the time, I thought it temporary. Still, I was so pleased to

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

For the last time they walked side by side to the gate, speaking not a word, as though too much remained to be said and so little time remained to say it.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Relativity keeps anything from happening at once. Quantum mechanics keeps everything from really happening at all.