Absence Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again.…

— Vikas Runwal

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel…

— Mohsin Hamid

I've been privy to certain experiences which have allowed me to realize how fleeting time is, in any case, and how ultimately not important…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider…

— Ray Kurzweil

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

— John Berger

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our…

— Francois Fenelon

“Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without…

— Ian Caldwell

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

— Charles Bukowski