Life Quotes

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

~ Ally Carter

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

When days seem like years and years feel like days.

~ Robert Brown Fulford

You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

~ Stanisław Lem

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

~ Shannon Delany

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

~ Douglas Coupland

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.

~ Sherwood Anderson

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

~ Bill Graham

God schedules a birthday, not man.

~ Robert A. Bradley

Every second counts

~ Dorothy Koomson

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

~ Margaret George

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

~ Stephen King

In the darkness of night,Demons strut, taunting, goading.In the light of day,Angels sing glorious songs.In the time in between,We live our lives alone and searching.And sometimes, softly,You understand damnation.All is forgotten, all is lost,All but forgivenessAnd the memory of her kiss.

~ Lisa Mangum

Everything started as nothing.

~ Auliq Ice

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

~ Wallace Stegner

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

~ Charles Bukowski

The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

~ Lisa Mangum

Time wounds all heals.

~ Tracy Letts

I think you will agree that life's plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with more than one opportunity from which to choose. Time itself is often the best indicator of which decision to make, for it can tell so many thing that are now hazy.

~ Linda Lee Chaikin

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

~ Michel De Montaigne

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

~ Meg Wolitzer

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

~ Adam Gopnik

How can you say: I love you forever! ; Whereas bit of time can change everything

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From time to time, one must release the grime built up inside them to to free their emotions like the ocean.

~ Suzy Kassem

I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.

~ Terry Pratchett

At every single moment, the whole creation is beginning again, stretching the tent of the present moment to bursting. And the waves that push up through the oceans, and the waves that push up through the stars; and the waves that push upwards through history are the same waves that push up through us. And so we have to say yes to time, even though it means speeding forward into memory; forgetfulness; and oblivion. Say “no” to time; hold on to what you were or what she was; hold onto the past, even out of love... and I swear it will tear you to shreds. This universe will tear you to shreds.

~ Craig Wright

How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

~ Elena Ferrante

I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.

~ Crystal Woods

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

~ T.s. Eliot

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

~ Sebastian Faulks

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

~ William Landay

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

~ Dean Koontz

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

~ Madeline Claire Franklin

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

~ Ernest Hemingway