Life Quotes

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

~ Cameron Conaway

O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

~ Charlaine Harris

And if you don't find what you're looking for?At Roy's question Addie looked up.Then all I've lost is time.

~ Jodi Picoult

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

~ Robert Grudin

I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong.It's just that...TIME has passed and changed it all.

~ Yuuki Obata

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist

~ Salman Rushdie

Money should not dictate how I live my life..I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.

~ Manoj Arora

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

~ R.d. Laing

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

~ Francesca Marciano

I'm sure, the highest capacity of storage device, will not enough to record all our stories; because, everytime with you is very valuable data

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Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today.

~ W. Oscar Thompson

Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?

~ Sorin Cerin

It's been 12 years now, and I think he still can read my smiles. The way my lips stretch, making my eyes look smaller than they already are. The way my cheeks turn a little red, forming new wrinkles near my eyes. The way the dimple on my face makes a visit whenever I smile meeting someone I haven't seen in ages. It's been 12 years now, and I haven't smiled at him even once.

~ Sanhita Baruah

In the end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.

~ Dennis Sharpe

There would be a time, when you will ask for nothing but life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.

~ Ramona Ausubel

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~ Rae Armantrout

No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that smile her eyes began.

~ W.h. Davies

With time comes perspective.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

~ Ovid

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

~ John D. Barrow

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

~ Julian Barnes

The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until we reach the most vulnerable moments, and then it snares us. I want to be dutiful. I want to do what I should. But when I go back to the tube, I think of where I am going; to that small house and my empty room. What will I do tonight? Make more paper flowers, more wreaths? I am sick of them. Sick of the Nekro

~ Maureen F. Mchugh

Two months in Shanghai, and what does she have to show for herself? She had been full of plans on the plane ride over, had studied her phrase book as if cramming for an exam, had been determined to refine her computational model with a new set of data, expecting insights and breakthroughs, plotting notes for a new article. Only the time has trickled away so quickly. She has meandered through the days chatting with James instead of gathering data. At night, she has gone out to dinners and bars. [James'] Chinese has not improved; her computational model has barely been touched. She does not know what she has been doing with herself, and now an airplane six days away is waiting for her.

~ Ruiyan Xu

I know none of Time’s cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore.

~ Sorin Cerin

Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search becomes futile – there is nothing left to find, no meaning to be dredged out of old receipts, newspaper articles, letters, accounts of events that seemed so important fifty or seventy years ago. All that remains is the insane urge to keep looking, insane because the searcher has no idea what he seeks. What will it be? A photograph? A will? A fragment of a letter? The only way to find out is to look at everything, because it is often when the searcher has gone far beyond the border of futility that he finds the object he never knew he was looking for.

~ Henry Wiencek

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

~ Sarah Ash

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.

~ Mitch Albom

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

~ Charles Bukowski

Your life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you want, but only once. Make sure you invest it and don't waste it. Invest it in something that matters to you and matters for eternity.

~ Tony Evens

Some people spend their entire lives seeing the snow without ever seeing the magic in the existence of one snowflake.

~ Emily Littlejohn

Loving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not be taken for granted or withdrawn for petty arguments and misunderstandings. No one knows the day nor the hour that we or a loved one will meet our expiration here on this earth. Time to make time to heal, amend and/or forgive broken relationships, to live your dreams without regret and love like there is no tomorrow for when tomorrow is no longer there...memories will be great and consciences will be clear.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

But time, I have come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs. We speak of managing time, but it is the opposite. Our lives are filled with businesses because those thin chinks of time are all we can truly master.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

~ Richard Smyth

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja