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Quotes About Time

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
~ Jean Reno
Youth is life's beautiful moment.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have been searching for time past all my life.
~ Jeanloup Sieff
I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.
~ Jerri Nielsen
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
~ Joan Rivers
I still find each day too short.
~ John Burroughs
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
~ William Faulkner
One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.
~ Yiyun Li
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
~ Zbigniew Herbert
I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
~ Andrew Young
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
~ Robert James Waller
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.
~ Robert Updegraff
If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.
~ Roger Miller
Every moment of our life is important.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.
~ Samael Aun Weor
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
While we wait for life, life passes
~ Seneca the Younger
Life is long if it is full.
~ Seneca the Younger
I am deeply reminded that our life's journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.
~ Sonia Choquette
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
~ Stephen Leacock
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
~ Susan Minot
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
~ Susan Sontag