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Quotes About Time

Life is too short for mean anxieties.
~ Charles Kingsley
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
~ Chenjerai Hove
There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.
~ Christian Boltanski
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.
~ Claire Cook
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
~ Darren Aronofsky
We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.
~ David Belasco
Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.
~ Diane Keaton
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
~ Douglas Coupland
Life and career kind of catches up with you.
~ Duncan Jones
Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E. B. White
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
~ Evelyn De Morgan
Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.
~ Fran Drescher
Our lives are but our marches to the grave.
~ Francis Beaumont
Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by
~ Fred Ebb
If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.
~ Michael Portillo
I've watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.
~ Nicolas Jaar
What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.
~ Paul Theroux
My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
~ Perry Como
They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.
~ Phil Plait