“I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” —Louis E. Boone
“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” —Groucho Marx
“Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.” —Frank Dane
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” —Bill Watterson
“So little time and so little to do.” —Oscar Levant
“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” —Frank H. Knight
“Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of $75 per hour for it without necessarily fixing anything.” —Dave Barry
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams
“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
“Time is a waste of money.” —Oscar Wilde
“Time is a great healer but a poor beautician.” —Lucille S. Harper
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” —Denis Waitley
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” —The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.” —Paracelsus
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” —Dr. Seuss
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” —John F. Kennedy
“Time does not pass; it continues.” —Marty Rubin
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” —Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” —Coco Chanel
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” —Laozi
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” —C.S. Lewis
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” —Art Buchwald
“You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.” —Herb Gardner
“There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” —Jack Bergman
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” —George Bernard Shaw
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” —Niccolò Machiavelli
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time, and that’s who we spend it on.” —Leo Christopher
“We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” —Warren Zevon
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.” —G.K. Chesterton
“The present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own.” —Charles Caleb Colton
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” —Haruki Murakami
“Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it or waste it. That’s it.” —A.J. Compton
“One day you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” —John Green
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep t, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” —Harvey Mackay
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.” —Seneca
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus
“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” —Max Frisch
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” —Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” —Bonnie Prudden
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” —Khalil Gibran
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.” —Rose Kennedy
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler
“Own time or time will own you.” —Brian Norgard
“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” —Lord Chesterfield
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” —Tennessee Williams
“The most precious resource we all have is time.” —Steve Jobs
“Seize the day, then let it go.” —Marty Rubin
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” —Anthony G. Oettinger
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” —Pope John Paul II
“We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.” — James Gleick
“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” — Tim Ferriss
“The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” — Art Buchwald
“It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” — J.K. Rowling
“The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin
“You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” — Ashley Ormon
"Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” — Jean Racine
“Time is long but life is short.” — Stevie Wonder
“Time is the least thing we have of.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” — William Butler Yeats
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.” — Tom Petty
“Time makes more converts than reason.” – Thomas Paine
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” — Hans Christian Andersen
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.” — Captain Jean-Luc Picard
“Time and tide wait for no man.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
“Time will explain.” — Jane Austen
“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” — Robert Orben
“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” — Haruki Murakami
“There’s time enough, but none to spare.” – Charles W. Chesnutt
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” — Nelson Mandela
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” — John F. Kennedy
“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” — Jim Rohn
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Each day a day goes by.” — Carlo Goldoni
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.” — Duke Ellington
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” — William Carlos Williams
“Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.” — Christopher Rice
“If one has no time, one has also lost oneself.” — Marc Wittmann
“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.” — Anna Wintour
“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.” — Michelle Obama
“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.” — Benjamin Hoff
“Time itself comes in drops.” — William James
“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.” — Diogenes
“We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.” — Colleen Hoover
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” — Dante Alighieri
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.” — Mitch Albom
“Punctuality is the thief of time.” — Oscar Wilde
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” — William Faulkner
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.” — Anthony Doerr
“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.” — Khaled Hosseini
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” — Stephen King
“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”— Dr. Seuss
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” — Heraclitus
“Own time, or time will own you.” — Brian Norgard
“Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” — George Harrison
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” — Dion Boucicault
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee
“The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.” — Marcel Proust
"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell
“Time is precious. Make sure you spend it with the right people.”
“Time you enjoy wasted was not time wasted.” — John Lennon
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein
“Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams
“There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.” — Coco Chanel
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” — Sarah Dessen
“Better three hours too soon than one minute too late.” — William Shakespeare
“Time has no meaning when you’re in love.”
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.” — Robert Frost
“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden
“No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let’s start with forever.” — Stephenie Meyer
“Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.” — Lucille S. Harper
“Time is a waste of money.” — Oscar Wilde
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol
"There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” — “Calvin and Hobbes
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” — Charles Buxton
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” — Alice Walker,
“I wish I could turn back the clock and find you sooner so I can love you longer.”
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca
"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” — Ray Cummings
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.” — Eduardo Galeano
"Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” — Miles Davis
“A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
"There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” — Jack Bergman
"An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.” — Chinese Proverb
"There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” — Leo Christopher
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” — Harvey MacKay
"No man goes before his time. Unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” — Lao Tzu
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” — Margaret Peters
“The most precious resource we all have is time.” — Steve Jobs
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." — Leo Tolstoy
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” ― Marcus Aurelius
“You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump.” ― Yasmeen Bleeth
“The more your know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time.” ― Maxime Lagacé
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again.” ― Jean-Luc Picard
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.” ― Ben Hecht
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” ― Thomas A. Edison
“All great achievements require time.” ― Maya Angelou
“Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” ― Richard Warren
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ― C.S. Lewis
“When time is not properly put to use, stagnation, unfruitfulness, disappointments, and near-success syndrome become a byproduct.” — Jasper Abiahu
“Since at the end of the day, it’s not about having time, it’s really about making time for what’s important.” — Erin Brown Hollis
“Time is the herald of truth.” — Edward Parsons Day
“If you spend all your time doing the same thing every day, then you should not be surprised if you achieve the same results every time.” — Jason Lee
“While the time is now, use time wisely because it does not take kindly to waste.” — Shauntrice Dewberry
“Making ourselves more aware of our ability to master and use time is a powerful tool and it begins with awareness.” — Elizabeth Wells
“Though time is a gift, we often dismiss its fleetingness or use it for our own pleasure.” — Bob Burton
“Time is like a flowing river that swiftly moves along carrying us from yesterday to tomorrow.” — William Powell Tuck
“When we understand time as an unfolding, we know when it is the right time to act.” — Glenn Aparicio Parry
“Spend your time doing something that will better you.” — Alysia Rieg
“I can use my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than by fretting about yesterday’s.” ― Admiral King
“If you are constantly lamenting about never having enough time, you will accomplish absolutely nothing at all.” ― Bradley Kirkland
“There is never enough time, I have to manage within this stipulated time and do all I can.” ― Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury
“Take time to get it right. Save the time of doing it over again.” ― Rao
“Use time wisely because you’ll never get it back.” ― Katherine Pakieser-Reed
“Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” ― Sara Paddison
“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” ― Lee Iacocca
“The perfect time to do what you love is now.” ― Neil Strauss
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” ― Dante Alighieri
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
“As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.” — Tom Petty
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” — William Butler Yeats
“Time is long but life is short.” — Stevie Wonder
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” — Jean Racine
“You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” — Ashley Ormon
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” — Art Buchwald
“The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“Lack of time is actually a lack of priorities.” — Tim Ferriss
“We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.” — James Gleick
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” — Bill Watterson
“The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” — Mason Cooley
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.” — Jim Morrison
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” — Dion Boucicault
“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles
“Time waits for no one.” — Folklore
“When you get a groove going, time flies.” – Donald Fagen
“For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.” – Colm Wilkinson
“Time flies when you’re on an emotional roller coaster.” – Kaitlyn Bristowe
“Time flies when you’re multitasking.” – Bert McCoy
“There are no refunds on misspent time.” – Jack Butcher
“When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tausher
“Time flies when you are having fun.” – Albert Einstein
“Time flies, and what is past is done.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” – Victor Hugo
“I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.” ― Jennifer Niven
“Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.” ― Joyce Meyer
“One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.” ― Deena Kastor
“One step at a time is good walking.” ― Proverb
“Our way to practice is one step at a time, one breath at a time.” ― Shaurya Suzuki
“Don’t rush the process. Good things take time.” – Unknown
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.” ― Emily Dickinson
“Let’s get through this one step at a time.”
“Just take one step at a time… That’s really all you can do…” ― Noetic Alchemy
“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.” – John Wanamaker
“Time is the enemy of identity.”― Michael Moorcock
“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.” – Patricia Briggs
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” – William Carlos Williams
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ― Andy Warhol
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” – Thomas Hardy
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” – Ray Cummings
“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.” – Khaled Hosseini
“Let every man be master of his time.”― William Shakespeare
“Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.”― Toba Beta
“If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.”― Priya Ardis
“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”― Alan Lightman
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”― Anatole France
“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Time and tide wait for no man.”― Stephen King
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”― Henry James
“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”― Mitch Albom
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.”― Hector Berlioz
“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”― David Norris
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”― Aeschylus
“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”― Robert Greene
“Everyone’s time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.”― Roy T. Bennett
“Time management is about life management.”― Idowu Koyenikan
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
“Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.” – JOHN MILTON
“Time is money.” – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”― Coco Chanel
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” ― Cassandra Clare
“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.” – Zig Ziglar
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” – Denis Waitley
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Mark Twain
“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.” — Roald Dahl
“The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha
“Time is the one thing we all have in common, but it is also the one thing that we all use differently.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Time is an equal opportunity employer, but how we treat time is not equal.” – John C. Maxwell
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” ― Anthony G. Oettinger
“Your time is the one thing you can’t pawn off on somebody else. What do you want to be doing? Are you doing it?” – Anita Dhake
“Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.” – Robert M. Hensel
“There are moments and days when I want to freeze time, and there are days I wish away.” – Sarah Williams
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Change your 24 hours and you will change your life.” – Eric Thomas
“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”― Anna Wintour
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher
“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” – Delmore Schwartz
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” – Baltasar Gracian
“If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough.” – Jef Mallett
“No use thinking of the past for its gone, don’t think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because that’s where you are.” – Kazi Shams
“Life is all about having a good time.” – Miley Cyrus
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.” ― Lao Tzu
“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus
“Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.” – William Penn
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
“Time will pass and seasons will come and go.” – Roy Bean
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” ― Coco Chanel
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa
“Time is all we have and don’t. ”
“Always, he wonders why and how he has let four months—months increasingly distant from him—so affect him, so alter his life. But then, he might as well ask—as he often does—why he has let the first fifteen years of his life so dictate the past twenty-eight. He has been lucky beyond measure; he has an adulthood that people dream about: Why, then, does he insist on revisiting and replaying events that happened so long ago? Why can he not simply take pleasure in his present? Why must he so honor his past? Why does it become more vivid, not less, the further he moves from it?”
“Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.”
“It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.”