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Category: Time and Passing

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1. "The future is a better key to the present than the past."

James Graham Ballard

2. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

3. "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look."

James Burke

4. "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. "

André Dubus

Quotations about: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

5. "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg

Quotations about: Life and Death

6. "The future is much like the present, only longer."

Dan Quisenberry

7. "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

8. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

Zora Neale Hurston

Quotations about: Question and Problem

9. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

10. "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

11. "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

Albert Einstein

12. "All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin proverb, (inscription on clocks)

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc. -:- Pain and Tears

13. "One generation plants trees, another gets the shade."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

14. "Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Life and Death

15. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Nature and Animals

16. "Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year."

Spanish proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

17. "Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"

Ashleigh Brilliant

18. "Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

Horace Mann

19. "Time spent with cats is never wasted."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

20. "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Quotations about: Life and Death

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21. "Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

Herbert Spencer

22. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

23. "Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."

Ambrose Bierce

24. "Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers."

Douglas Coupland, "Girlfriend in a Coma"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

25. "The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

26. "Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal."

St. Jerome

Quotations about: Human

27. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Key

Quotations about: Various

28. "God gave us time so that everything wouldn't happen all at once."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future."

Anon.

Quotations about: Good and Evil

30. "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

Evelyn Waugh

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

31. "I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week."

Erma Bombeck

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

32. "What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness."

Ivo Andrić

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

33. "An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold."

Chinese proverb

34. "Don't worry that there won't be a tomorrow, it's already tomorrow in Australia."

Charles Monroe Schulz

35. "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotations about: Life and Death

36. "Time is what a clock measures."

Albert Einstein

37. "As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"

Henry David Thoreau

38. "Time keeps everything from happening all at once. Space keeps everything from happening all to you."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

39. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

40. "Don't let time take control of your destiny. Let your destiny take control of your time."

Ulrick Ricardo Milord

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

41. "Don't be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there."

William H. Lowthert

Quotations about: God and Religion

42. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

43. "Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

Margaret Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind"

Quotations about: Various

44. "Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students."

Anon.

Quotations about: Education

45. "To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

William Blake

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Work and Laziness

46. "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Quotations about: Youth and Age

47. "A diplomatic husband said to his wife: "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?""

Anon.

Quotations about: Woman and Man

48. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity."

from the "Gladiator" movie

Quotations about: Life and Death

49. "Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely."

Kay Lyons

50. "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

Charles F. Kettering

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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