Quotes About Time

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

The hollows of his face, even in that vibrant, late-summer light, make him look haunted by a memory he hasn't had yet.

The things that disturb us at midnight are negligible at 9 a.m.

I tell him the Company is the past preying on the future—that we are the future.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you. When

it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death.

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

Another week passes into grey oblivion. You're a slow dream, an autumn freeze, a ship on the doldrums. Thoughts come slow and ponderous, like deep sea fish floating heavy and memory-bound to the surface; coelacanth reborn.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

You don't know this, 'cause you're too young," came the usual lecture, "but politicians run all the big scams. Government's the thief of all time. That's why it tries so hard to catch thieves—it doesn't like the competition.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

Complete knowledge of any alien physiology could be obtained within minutes by Educator Tape, but the skill to use that knowledge—especially in surgery—came only with time.