Quotes About Time

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears.

***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.

You smell so good, ""No, I don't, I smell like death.""You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death.""I was dead a long time.""And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.