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Quotes About Time

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.
~ Sylvia Plath
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.
~ Carson Ellis
I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!
~ Charles M. Schulz
It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
~ Charles Macomb Flandrau
You're only young once.
~ Dyan Sheldon
It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.
~ Dylan McDermott
In the sun that is young once only,Time let me play and beGolden in the mercy of his means.
~ Dylan Thomas
And the sabbath rang slowlyIn the pebbles of the holy streams.
~ Dylan Thomas
Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.
~ Dylan Thomas
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
~ Dylan Thomas
Time passes. Listen. Time passes. Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.
~ Dylan Thomas
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas
A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?
~ Dylan Thomas
The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.
~ Dylan Thomas
And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days.
~ Dylan Thomas
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children's circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has set its maggot on their track. Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe. What's never known is safest in this life. Under the skysigns they have no arms Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.
~ Dylan Thomas
Time and the crabs and the sweethearting crib Would leave me cold as butter for the flies
~ Dylan Thomas
Time kills me terribly. 'Time shall not murder you,' He said, 'Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?' I saw time murder me.
~ Dylan Thomas
final direction of the elementary town I advance for as long as forever is.
~ Dylan Thomas
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
~ Dylan Thomas
the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.
~ Dylan Wiliam
from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.
~ E L Doctorow
Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an afterlife in the city of ghosts, while from others, and thus was the death of Wickham Place, the spirit slips before the body perishes.
~ E M Forster