Dorothy Parker Quotes

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

What is life but playing with time?

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

How did it get so late so soon?

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.