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Quotes About Time

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Life in us is like the water in a river.
~ Henry David Thoreau
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
~ Jim Morrison
One man in his time plays many parts.
~ William Shakespeare
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
~ Salman Rushdie
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
~ Neneh Cherry
Old age is the verdict of life.
~ Amelia Barr
Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
~ Renee Fleming
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
~ Caroline Kennedy
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
~ Life stand still here.
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
~ Tom Ford
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
~ David Levien, City of the Sun
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
~ Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
~ Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
~ Alex Lifeson
Life is short. Eternity is long.
~ Bentley Little
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
~ Bertrand Russell
Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.
~ C.W. McCall
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
~ Carl Sandburg
Life is short, I have no time for drama.
~ Caroline Manzo
Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.
~ Darren Clarke
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
~ Edward Hoagland