Some love lasts a lifetime. True love last forever.
—Unknown
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
—Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could’st make the time to do so too;
I’ll wind thee up no more.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
There’s time enough, but none to spare.
—Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) American Novelist, Essayist, Political Activist, Short Story Write
Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas – But, goodness, why need they do it?
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970) American Novelist, Artist
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, but from its loss. To give it then a tongue is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, it is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch; how much is to be done!
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Your life is not just about you. It’s also about contributing to others. It’s about living true to your mission and reason for being here on this earth at this time. It’s about adding your piece of the puzzle to the world. Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can’t only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people’s lives.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English Polymath, Philosopher, Sociologist, Political Theorist
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
The surest poison is time.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
—Paul W. Litchfield (1875—1959) American Industrialist
Pastime is a word that should never be used but in a bad sense; it is vile to say a thing is agreeable, because it helps to pass the time away.
—William Shenstone (1714–63) British Poet, Landscape Gardener
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
—Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French Philosopher, Evolutionist
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
—John Howe (b.1957) Canadian Artist
Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire pistols.
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German Novelist, Short Story Writer, Social Critic, Philanthropist, Essayist
Ask the young. They know everything.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
—John Wanamaker (1838–1922) American Merchant, Civil Servant
Time is the measure of business as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch. The Spartans and Spaniards have been noted to be of small despatch, and hence the maxim, “Let my death come from Spain”; for then it will be long in coming.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.
—Martin H. Fischer