It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Friends are thieves of time.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
