Quotes About Time

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Life punishes those who come too late.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.