Quotes about Time

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.