“Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
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Time Quotes
44 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.
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“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
Pablo Neruda
“June is the gateway to summer.”
Jean Hersey · The Shape of a Year, 1967
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“Then came the June stillness, the heavy heat, the throbbing silence of the summer afternoon.”
L. M. Montgomery
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
Al Bernstein
“June is bustin' out all over.”
Oscar Hammerstein II · Carousel, 1945
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
Gertrude Jekyll · On Gardening
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
Tennessee Williams · The Glass Menagerie, 1944
“Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.”
Unknown
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985
“We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
