Time Quotes

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late." "Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time" "The past is always tense the future perfect" "We have so much time and so little to do Scratch that reverse it" "It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself" "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past" "The work of memory collapses time" "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living" "The life we have is the only life there is, and if we survive another five hundred years it will still be the only life there is" "Time is the moving image of eternity" "The future is no more uncertain than the present." "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence" "It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation" "The true picture of the past flits by " "There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them." "In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power" "I wish it need not have happened in my time but so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "A philosopher is someone who won't take your watch away to tell you what time it is"