Quotes About Time

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

the future gives birth to the present

But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

The visit has commenced. The box step, three-quarter waltz time. No fast moves or sudden stops.

O presente é positivo, ocupemo-nos dele primeiro, que o futuro por sua vez virá.

Se os sofrimentos da vida parecem longos, que seria se a ele se juntasse a lembrança do passado?

Si el hombre conociera el porvenir descuidaría el presente.

why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

Trees are like people. We're alive, then we're memories, then we're not even that.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

Don't have time for memories, too busy making them

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

Life unravels as it's lived. It can't be woven back together.

We need either to get the primary care doctors out of psychiatry or to teach them how to do it and give them sufficient time to do it properly.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

La vida es lo que ocurre mientras tú estás ocupado haciendo otros planes.

La vida es eso que sucede mientras haces planes.

Memories of a time she wanted to forget clawed to be heard.