Markus Zusak Quotes

Time just gets away from us.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Time flies never to be recalled.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.