“How did it get so late so soon?”
-Dr. Seuss
“You may delay, but time will not.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
-Michael Altshuler
“Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are to enjoy it, or waste it. That’s it.”
-A.J. Compton
Certainly, those quotes would sum up a lot for me. Dr. Seuss gives us all the context we ever need on the passage of time; life is over sooner than we think and are all ready for.
It’s basically up to the individual how to spend his or her time. We often, too, lose many opportunities by delaying or postponing choices. (Take it from me, the house you want will be sold tomorrow if you fart around, thinking it’ll still be there on the market next week.) “You can never step in the same river twice.”-Heraclitus.
Compton’s quote boils down the main choice we all make; so we’d better be doing the enjoyable, pleasurable things we really want to do.
No question, the clock or watch is always ticking, and it is easy for time to slip by while you’re deep in the process of living. In that sense, time can pass you by.
Sometimes time drags or wears on (sometimes we even kill time to bear its slowness); other times, it gallops and goes faster than we want especially if we’re at leisure or lost in a pleasurable activity such as a vacation.
I don’t think there’s much a more annoying thing than wasting time or frittering away time on useless nothings.
Instead, “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand.”-Marie Beynon Ray.
Some other favorite time quotes:
“He who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise.”
-William Blake
“In delay there lies no plenty.”
-William Shakespeare
“Music is the best means of digesting time.”
-W.H. Auden
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”
-Louis Agassiz
“The length of your life is less important than its depth.”
-Marilyn Vos Savant