Quotes About Time

For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Patience, and shuffle the cards.

Little said is soon amended.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.