Quotes about Time

Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.

people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a hemingway or an orwell.

The past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.

One day we'll be glad to have the pictures...

What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have hap-pened at all. If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

Suddenly she felt a need to urinate. You see, she cried. I need to pee. That's proof positive I'm not dead! But they only laughed again. Needing to pee is perfectly normal! they said. You'll go on feeling that kind of thing for a long time yet. Like a person who has an arm cut off and keeps feeling it's there. We may not have a drop of pee left in us, but we keep needing to pee.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.