Quotes about Time

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

For the past is what man should not have been.  The present is what man ought not to be.  The future is what artists are.

each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensifies it.