Quotes About Time

The key point is that, in principle, interest income is the change in price associated with the passage of time. Capital gains and losses are the changes in price related to changes in value—for bonds that means a change in the yield. We'll see in Chapter 4 when we get into bond taxation how well these economic principles hold up in practice.

Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

inner sanctuary to which the beleaguered ego repairs in time of crisis is also a world that opens onto transpersonal energies.

A day is a day. It's just a measurement of time. Whether it's a good day or a bad day is up to you. It's all a matter of perception.

Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

Life is too short to learn German

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.