Quotes about Time

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or walk about slowly remembering all the details of life which now because a million lightyears away have taken on the aspect (as they must've for Proust in his sealed room) of pleasant movies brought up at will and projected for further study ? And pleasure ? As I imagine God to be doing this very minute, watching his own movie, which is us.

Life is holy and every moment is precious.