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Quotes About Time

Next, think about the future for one simple reason—you are going to spend the rest of your life in the future.
~ Unknown
IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.
~ Jack Welch
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
~ Unknown
I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.
~ Unknown
Maybe everyone is crazy up in these mountains. Maybe the air up here makes you absurd, the scent of flowers and rock and snow. And I've never spoken like that to anyone in my life before. You're my only friend here, you know that? And you're fifty years away.
~ Jackie French
Darling Jed. One day wee are all going to die. That should make us love each other more, not less. Use the time we are given." "That sounds very wise. But doesn't it just mean life hurts you more?" "It means you pay for love," said Nancy. "But it is always worth it.
~ Jackie French
When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.
~ Jackie Kay
Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.
~ Jackie Kay
There is always plenty of time each day for the will of God.
~ Unknown
They are dreamers, these women, these bears, they are seers and speakers of truth, dancers of time, travelling the world, gathering stories.
~ Unknown
Or would you feel how my love is wrapped around by the richest, the wildest song? And, if I said my love for you is like the time when the nightingale is absent from our twilight world, would you hear it as silence? Nothing? No love? Or as anticipation of that rich current of music, which fills heart, soul, body, mind.
~ Unknown
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. A there will come a time wen you will have need of me. Then yo will know.
~ Unknown
One day she asked the hare why he had come to her, of all people. 'Some questions,' he replied 'are better left unanswered. And there will come a time when you will have need of me. Then you will know.
~ Unknown
She who could speak in leaves and knew the language of birds, the history of the world, knew that it was time for a change.
~ Unknown
All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.
~ Jackie Pullinger
These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them
~ Jackson Browne
Death is ear-splitting, it's shattering with absence; over time, it's quieter.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve- the utter silence of non-rain.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.
~ Jacob Needleman
The struggle to exist, to not disappear in this moment, is the advancing root of the struggle to exist throughout the whole passage of time. We need to help each other in this struggle. You by asking, I by struggling to respond. This is the law of love, which rules the universe.
~ Jacob Needleman
Make up your mind because you can't make up time
~ Unknown
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
~ Jacqueline Carey
It's like you miss a year of your life,
~ Unknown
Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".
~ Jacqueline Harpman