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Quotes About Time

What is life but playing with time?
~ Keith Richards
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
~ Lord Byron
Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.
~ Marc Riboud
Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
~ Mark Twain
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
~ Myrtle Reed
Inventors don't have time for married life.
~ Nikola Tesla
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
~ Oliver Goldsmith
A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
~ R.J. Ellory
It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.
~ Rita Rudner
Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
~ Robert Breault
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Childhood lasts all through life.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
~ Georg Simmel
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
~ George Saunders
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
~ Guy Finley
We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
~ Harvey Mackay
Time is the life of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
~ Horace
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.
~ Ignazio Silone
Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?
~ Inio Asano
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
~ Jack Kerouac
Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
~ James C. Collins
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.
~ Jeff Mangum