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Quotes About Time

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
~ George Eliot
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
~ Jean Baptiste Massillon
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
~ John Owen
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
~ Justin Rosenstein
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
~ Kate Adie
The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
~ Peter Shaffer
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
~ Robin Gibb
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
~ Roni Horn
We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!
~ Sam Keen
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
~ Seneca the Younger
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.
~ Steve Jobs
Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.
~ Terry Pratchett
As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.
~ Theo Rossi
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
~ Tim Ferriss
Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.
~ Virginia Woolf
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
~ Virginia Woolf
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
~ W. S. Gilbert
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
~ Cees Nooteboom
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
~ Charles Dickens