Quotes About Time

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Never confuse activity with productivity.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.