Quotes about Time

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember.

Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age

the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—

Years sneak by quickly, on tip-toe, scoffing and suddenly they give us a fright in the mirror or smack us on the back. Every minute is precious and we can't waste it on misunderstanding, impatience, jealousy, pettiness, or the other silly stuff that soils relationships. In truth this formula can be applied at any age because it's always the case that our days are limited.

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.