Quotes About Time

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.