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Quotes About Time

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
~ Thomas Jefferson
But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.
~ Todd McFarlane
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.
~ Tom Robbins
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
~ Vance Havner
Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what's going on with you and God behind closed doors.
~ Vicky Beeching
If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
~ Walter Pater
The future has no shelf life
~ Warren G. Bennis
Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.
~ Wayne Dyer
The night is just a part of the day
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.
~ Paula Abdul
We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?
~ Sophie Kinsella
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
~ Garth Stein, A Sudden Light
Life is just the time between crapping yourself.
~ Adam Carolla
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
~ Albert Camus
One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good
~ Albert Einstein
You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.
~ Ani DiFranco
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
~ Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
~ Banana Yoshimoto