Quotes about Time

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.