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Quotes About Time

Art is eternal, but life is short.
~ Evelyn De Morgan
The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.
~ Garrison Keillor
Life goes on within you and without you
~ George Harrison
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
~ Henry Miller
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
~ Henry Miller
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Stop and consider! life is but a day
~ John Keats
Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.
~ John Landis Mason
Brief life is here our portion.
~ John Mason Neale
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.
~ Jose Emilio Pacheco
I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
~ Loretta Lynn
I wondered about the half-life of regret.
~ Lorrie Moore
Life is too short to sleep it all away!
~ Mary Engelbreit
There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
~ Mary J. Blige
Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]
~ Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.
~ Rene Dubos
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
~ V. S. Naipaul
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
~ William Shakespeare
What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
~ Gabriel Byrne
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
~ Gabrielle Roy