Quotes about Time

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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?