Enlightenment Quote by Mehmet Murat ildan

“Growing old does not make us any better at loving one another or understanding the meaning of life or death. Nor does knowledge come…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with…

— Neel Burton

“New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the…

— Graham Greene

“The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impression…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“in life we only live 5 to 10 seconds from our present because the rest of them is past”

— osvaldo yambi

“I thought to live two centuries, or three- yet here comes death to me, a child just eighty five years old”

— Hanabusa Ikkei

“Life isn’t defined by how long it is. It’s the moments you have while you’re alive.”

— T.J. Klune

“Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“For life is experience, and longevity is, in the end, measured by memory, and those with a thousand tales to tell have indeed lived…

— R.A. Salvatore

“The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“We all know that the inevitability of time is a shadow against our lives, a creeping knife, and yet by living fully we can…

— Sophie Crothers