Quotes About Time

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

Each day is a little life.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.