Quotes about Time

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.