Alas Quote by Samuel Johnson

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

— St. Jerome

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…

— Thomas Wolfe

Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black,…

— John Masefield

A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be…

— Dean Alford

The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more…

— Mitch Albom

Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have…

— Robert Southwell

“If time stood still, each moment would be stopped; frozen. Each moment, individually, can be captured as though the world was a giant painting.…

— Alexis Hurley

“We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.”

— Sally Warner

“Time has wings and it can fly . A second spent wastefully can never be regained, a minute spent wisely is memorable and an…

— Adewale Osunsakin

“Brilliant boom of Spring is nothing if not for the timely death of Autumn~”

— Tanya Gambhir

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast…

— John Milton