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Quotes About Time

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away
~ Jimmy Buffet
Fear not of evil Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.
~ Damian Marley
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and so is money
~ Bertolt Brecht
The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
~ Cesare Pavese
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
~ Helen Hayes
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.
~ Maya Angelou
You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave me There's no words to describe it In French or in English Well, diamonds they fade And flowers they bloom And I'm telling you These feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sideways They've been knockin' me out lately Whenever you come around me These feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sideways I keep thinking in a moment that Time will take them away But these feelings won't go away.
~ Unknown
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~ Edward Hoagland
Life is too short to be small.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
~ Unknown
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
~ Jodi Rell
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
~ Emily Dickinson
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
~ Unknown
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
~ John Cale
'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
~ John Gay
You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.
~ Bob Fosse
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God
~ Igor Stravinsky
Boy, life takes a long time to live
~ Stephen Wright
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
~ TS Eliot
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
~ Seneca
We live but a fraction of our lives
~ Henry David Thoreau