Quotes About Time

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.