Quotes About Time

This is serious: some of the things that are supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

Who knows what death is? Maybe life is nothing more than a beam of light passing slowly over our changing faces.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

So many faces in and out of my life; some will last, some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and good byes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

It takes a lot of understanding, time, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset.

Life is wasted on the living.