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Quotes About Time

Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
~ T. S. Eliot
Life is short, the art long.
~ Hippocrates
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.
~ Joe L. Wheeler
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
~ William Osler
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
~ Heston Blumenthal
I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.
~ Aaron Tveit
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
~ Albert Camus
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
~ Aldous Huxley
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
~ Anish Kapoor
You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
~ Barbara Sher
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
~ Betty Smith
It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Only Once In Your Life
~ Bob Marley
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
~ Boles?aw Prus
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
~ C. S. Lewis
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
~ Freya Stark
The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
~ Georges Pompidou
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
~ Hannah More
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
~ Harland Williams