Quotes About Time

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

I often think of life as a deposit of time. We are each allocated so many years, just like a fixed sum in a bank. When twenty-four hours have passed I have spent one more day. I read in the People's Daily that the average life expectancy for a Chinese woman is seventy-two. I am already seventy-four years old. I spent all my deposits two years ago and am on bonus time. Every day is already a gift. What is there to complain of?

The concept of time in the Jewish way of thinking is not one of linear flow. Time is a process, in which past, present, and future are bound to each other, not only by cause and effect but also as a harmonization of two motions: progress forward and a countermotion backward, encircling and returning.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no 'business.

On the whole earth there's no being, no substance, and probably no human institution that doesn't end by growing old. But it's in the logic of things that every human institution should be convinced of its everlastingness—unless it already carries the seed of its downfall. The hardest steel grows weary. Just as it is certain that one day the earth will disappear, so it is certain that the works of men will be overthrown.

Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.

Perché non ero nato cent'anni prima? Al tempo della guerra, quando un uomo valeva qualcosa anche se non teneva bottega?

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Ne množství, nýbrž jakost práce pomáhá ur?ovat hodnotu každého p?edm?tu. Žijeme v dob?, jež dává p?ednost kvantit? práce. Nebo? tato kvantita se dá lehce kontrolovat, je každému hned nápadná a nevyžaduje cvi?eného pohledu nebo n?jakých látkových znalostí.

For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must evolve in such a way that provides easier access to the currents that flow through it.

The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.

Life is a cascade of nows falling on top of one another without meaning or purpose. Of all the philosophers, only Schopenhauer ever got that right.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper. Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy. I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Blink, and you'll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you'll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

I'd not felt so much as a pinprick of foreboding or dark premonition about what lay beyond the curve of time.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

because life is short and you too are thirsty.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.