Quotes About Time

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.