“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”— Colum McCann, amazon.com
“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had brought these two together on a ship, and their first meeting had been upon the timeless and immortal seas that beat forever at the shores of the old earth.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the st…”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.”— Robert Frost, ketzle.com
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you’re either on top of the world, or under it.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com