Stephen King Quotes

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

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

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing is ours except time.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.