Quotes About Time

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Life is but a series of memories you make.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.