Quotes About Time

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Life's to short for chess.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.