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Time Quotes



"There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear."


"You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me."


"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it."


"If measuring by this earthly realm's time then it's been years but in the unseen realm above known as Vehaven, it has been but a moment."


"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."


"Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us."


"Tomorrow camewith the illusion of todayeven more fleeting than yesterdayit camelike it always comesand wentlike it's always gonelike a favorite song in its final secondsTomorrow came and leftleaving nothingnothing...but a familiarlingeringsense of loss behind."


"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."


"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"



"With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand, hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die."


"Did I live the spring I'd sought?It's true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day to slumber at my feet.Yet days aren't lulled by lyric song,like morning birds they pass along,o'er crests of trees, to none belong;o'er crests of trees of drying dew,their larking flight, my hands, eschewThus I'll say it once and true.From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered."


"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."


"Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."


"He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it."


"To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process."


"Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment."


"Past and future is determined by what is now, right now! This is why the present is a gift, the only one that ultimately matters most."


"Don't ever allocate necessary time for unnecessary things. Understand what time it is to do what it is."


"It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible."



"Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful."


"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."


"Every moment before this one depends on this one."
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