“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989
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Time Quotes
22 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, January 1957
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace, 1869
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed
“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.”
Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea
“Every summer has a story.”
John Grisham · Sycamore Row
“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”
Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb · widely attributed to Karen Lamb
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 · The Bible, King James Version
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
Joseph Addison · The Spectator, 1711
“Dum differtur vita transcurrit.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I
“Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Jean de La Fontaine · Fables, Book II, 1668
“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
