Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.