Quotes About Time

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

Perhaps I've been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.