Nora Roberts Quotes

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

Time is something you can't get back.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Space we can recover; time never.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.