Time flies very quickly. Time goes faster than before
Why does time sometimes fly quickly, then slowly stretch?
Editorial responseThe way we experience the duration of time within ourselves, independent of external indicators such as clocks or calendars, is what psychologists call subjective or experienced time. This sense of time may differ from the actual course of time. If we are in a good mood or are engaged in the usual business, time flies faster, but if a person is immersed in depression or is hard at mastering a new business, his time can drag on very slowly.
How mood affects the perception of time
The most common point of view is that a good mood speeds up time (that is, our subjective time turns out to be less than real, "external" time), and a bad mood stretches it. If you experience joyful moments in life or communicate with people who are pleasant to you, then time flies by unnoticed - as you know, "happy hours are not observed." The same applies to work: when we are passionate about work, striving for success, then time flies by unnoticed, and if it is a symptom of a weak interest in our work.
Depression and illness make us perceive the passage of time as painfully long. The same applies to communication with people unpleasant to us - everyone is familiar with the awkward state when you wait and do not wait for an unpleasant interlocutor to leave you.Efforts to gain new experience also affect the perception of time: if we are doing our usual business, then time flies by unnoticed, but mastering a new subject is difficult for us, which is also reflected in subjectively longer time. For example, the journey home from work in your hometown will seem shorter in time than the same journey that you make in an unfamiliar area.
How events and information affect the course of time
Another important factor is the number of events that a person perceives - they are also called cognitive markers. When a person’s consciousness is saturated with a mass of events – these can be both external events in which we participate and a large flow of information being assimilated – then we get a feeling of great speed of time: a stream of cognitive markers rushes by like telegraph poles outside the window of a fast moving train.
If there are few events or interesting information, then time seems to freeze - the human consciousness has nothing to grab onto to feel its progress. By the way, this can also explain why the perception of time by modern man has accelerated significantly compared to the measured life of people in the pre-industrial era. Today, we make more decisions, travel more, meet more people, or learn more from books and media in a year than, for example, an 18th-century peasant would in his entire life.
Another interesting phenomenon is that the monotonous period is extended for a long time only in the present, i.e. when we experience it. But as soon as he finds himself in the past, i.e. when you remember this period, it will seem surprisingly short. The reason is that a series of monotonous events is recorded in memory as one event, as one experience.
How does age affect the perception of time?
Age also affects the perception of the passage of time. The time of a child is more eventful and emotional than the time of an elderly person - therefore, a week or a year for a child lasts much longer than for an adult, and even more so for an elderly person. There is an interesting point of view that the “proportionality” effect affects the perception of time: for a 5-year-old child, one year is 20% of his life, and for a 33-year-old adult, only 3%. Therefore, in the perception of a child and an adult, this year takes a different amount of time.
Affects with age and accumulated experience, including emotional. With age, we do not perceive different events so dramatically, we better understand ourselves and those around us - therefore, a number of researchers believe that life satisfaction, mood in older people improves compared to younger years. Experience also means less effort that needs to be put in to get results at work. All this leads to the fact that with age, time begins to fly by unnoticed.
As a kid, three months of summer vacation feels like an eternity. And it is worth growing up, as whole years rush by, we do not even have time to blink an eye. However, time as such does not change, no matter how old we are. So why is its perception changing so much in our minds? Perhaps the fact is that we are subjective beings, and time for us flows non-linearly? It does not move from point A to point B at a constant speed, but exists in several dimensions and can slow down or speed up.
We live simultaneously in our biological time and in the time associated with an important event for us. Our brain is to blame, says neuroscientist Mark Schwob, and cites as an example the state of concentration when solving a complex intellectual problem. At such moments, time seems to stop: “Our limbic system, the center of emotions, sensitivity, is temporarily turned off. We do not perceive the world around us, because the cerebral cortex only misses vital signals.”
But even strong emotions can “stop” time. While we are waiting for a loved one, minutes turn into hours, but as soon as he appears, the sense of time disappears. The "mechanism" in this case is different - it is the limbic system that is actively involved, which produces a huge amount of hormones that literally intoxicate us.
Perhaps the subjective change in the speed of the flow of time is also associated with a change in the rhythms of our lives. “We have swapped periods of rest and activity: now we work in winter and rest in summer. But such changes require adaptation, which means an increase in stress levels, says Mark Schwob. “Stress hormones, cortisol and catecholamines, are being produced by the body more and more, causing us to constantly rush and cause a feeling of lack of time.” In addition, time in our minds accelerates with age. The older we are, the more often we turn to memories and thoughts about the future - reducing the duration of the present.
Of course, neuroscience is not able to describe and explain the subjectivity of the perception of time, but it allows at least to understand its complexity. Both from the point of view of biology and from the point of view of philosophy, the only way to slow down the passage of time is to be aware of it. By changing our attitude to each specific moment of time and our sense of self in it, we open eternity before us.
Psychoanalyst's opinion
"The speeding up of time is part of growing up"
Svetlana Fedorova, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, senior lecturer at the Higher School of Economics
“The idea of time is formed in the process of growing up. The child gradually learns that there is a past and a future, and the present is noticeably reduced in his mind. The most important leap occurs during adolescence - disappointment as a result of unfulfilled childhood expectations. The teenager realizes that he will never become a knight or a prince. From that moment on, the passage of time in his mind begins to accelerate.
In order to find our time, it is necessary to have internal boundaries that are laid down in childhood and allow us not to experience excessive anxiety that we cannot correlate our desires with the reality of life. In a sense, we enter into a dialogue with time, define ourselves in time, fill abstract chaotic time with our own meaning and content. It is important that impersonal time become personal, and then we will live consciously and with pleasure every minute of it.
Opinion of a neurophysiologist
"Information processing slows down time"
Alexander Kaplan, Doctor of Biology, Head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Neurocomputer Interfaces, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov
“There is no brain structure that would be responsible for the sense of time. And the question of time perception is, of course, rather psychological. Man cannot objectively measure the passage of time. Neuroscientist David Eagleman conducted experiments by showing subjects various images. Some of them were familiar to the participants of the experiment, and some they saw for the first time. Eagleman then asked how long the subjects looked at the pictures. It turned out that according to subjective sensations, the subjects looked at unfamiliar pictures much longer. Meanwhile, the images were displayed with equal duration. Obviously, the more the brain is busy processing new information, the subjectively slower time flows. That is why 10 years of childhood are so stretched out, 10 years of adolescence and youth are so short, and the rest of the years are so fleeting, no matter how many there are!
Philosopher's opinion
"We trust the clock too much"
Oleg Aronson, philosopher, art historian, employee of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of the Russian Anthropological School of the Russian State Humanitarian University
“When we feel that time is running too fast or stretching endlessly, it is only because we have too much confidence in objective calculation - the clock, the calendar, and in general - the ordering of the world, where the past is followed by the present, and after it - the future. The experience of time and its understanding cannot be reconciled. For Augustine, time is somewhat like a divine presence: it is given outside the thought of it, but when you ask the question “what is it?” - it disappears. And according to Heidegger, we feel time only because we are mortal. It points us to our finitude, we experience it as a touch of being itself. For Bergson, on the contrary, time is expressed in the idea of duration and connects us, cultured and technologized people, with the variability of life itself, which does not depend on us.
Every time you have to ask: where is the place of time? Where is it in mathematics? Where is it in psychoanalysis? Where - in everyday life? These are always different images created by the collision of memory and expectation, a forgotten and obsessive desire ... It can shrink, making our existence mechanistic, or it can stretch indefinitely, revealing in us the ability to madness and faith.
Anthropologist's opinion
"Time is culture"
Marina Butovskaya, anthropologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor at the Center for Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities
“Representatives of different cultures feel and structure time differently. The Datoga, the traditional pastoralists of Tanzania, with whom I have worked for many years, can know exactly under what circumstances a person was born, but it is useless to ask the date of birth. They do not know their age either, only classifying themselves as a group: a child, a teenager, a young man, a parent, a grandfather.
They agree on the time of the meeting approximately: “at dawn”, “at noon”, “when it gets dark”. Important events (for example, weddings) are timed to coincide with the time of the year - when the rains begin, at the beginning of the dry season ... The following is a clarification: the ceremony will take place on the full moon or "when the moon completely wanes." The day and hour are not specified, but the Datogi know unmistakably when the event is to take place. Time in the European sense is not important for them, and no one is annoyed that the event can start a few hours later. Everyone is waiting peacefully and does not understand why we Europeans are so impatient.
Ideas about accuracy, however, differ in industrial cultures, so the presence of a watch does not yet ensure compliance with agreements. In Latin America, North Africa or the Middle East, an hour and a half late is acceptable. The person waiting is resting, drinking coffee, leafing through a book or listening to music. But in Germany, Sweden or Holland, being late for a few minutes is already a bad form.
I recently moved into a new apartment. It so happened that it is located on the 24th floor. For obvious reasons, every day you have to ride the elevator. True, once I still tried to climb the stairs and even timed it - I had to spend five minutes. I don't know why I wrote this.
I'll go back to the elevator. After a few days, I began to notice that the time in the elevator, when you are traveling alone and when you are with strangers, feels different. I realized that this was due to the awkward silence and the desire to quickly get out of the closed room that you share with a stranger. But I got curious:
In our life there are enough situations when time flows either faster or slower. Why is this happening?
Naturally, when we are standing in line, in the elevator, or just doing something uninteresting, time does not slow down. As well as interesting moments do not pass faster. But something is changing, because it is not in vain that it seems that time really flows differently.
Our perception of time is changing. For example, people who have ever been in emergency situations recall that everything seems to slow down and turn on the mode slow motion(slow motion). This is a cognitive error that helps us react faster to events.
Moreover, time slows down in the same way not only in situations where we are on the verge of life and death, but also when we experience strong emotions of fear or disgust. Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped, recalls an experiment in which arachnophobic subjects were shown spiders for 45 seconds and then asked how much time had passed. The vast majority named numbers an order of magnitude longer than 45 seconds.
Sometimes time passes faster. And it's not always good. For example, many people in adulthood say that time moves faster than in childhood. This is easily explained by the theory of proportionality:
Time passes faster when you are 40 years old, because it is only one fortieth (1/40) of all the time you have lived. While in an eight-year-old child it is one-eighth (1/8).
However, the theory of proportionality does not hold water. According to Hammond, we cannot value a day or a week as a separate unit of time. In this case, for a forty-year-old person, the days would turn into a flash, since they are equal to only 1/14,000 of his life.
One day at 40 can be just as boring or fun as one at eight. The theory of proportionality ignores such factors as emotions and distraction of a person's attention.
So Claudia Hammond had to look for another theory to explain why time passes faster with age. The answer is also found in cognitive distortions and is called the "telescope effect". A hypothesis linking the distinctness of memories and an assessment of when they occurred was first proposed by psychologist Norman Bradburn:
The less we remember about what happened in the past, the more we believe that it happened earlier than it actually did.
However, Hammond managed to explain another very interesting paradox related to travel. Why does it seem to us that time flies by unnoticed while relaxing, but when we look back, we realize that this is not so?
Everyday life is a list of familiar events that flow in a normal rhythm. While resting, we receive a large stream of new sensations, which makes it seem to us that time flows faster.
The paradox of slowing down and speeding up time in our minds is a very interesting phenomenon. We do not know how to control it and are unlikely to learn in the future. This is another unusual survival mechanism that does not always work as it should, but without which we would not be people in the usual sense.
Think about it, it really was like that in childhood - the summer holidays seemed to have no end, and it took forever to wait for the New Year holidays. So why does time seem to pick up pace over the years: weeks or even months fly by unnoticed, and the seasons change at such a dizzying speed?
Isn't such an obvious acceleration of time the result of the duties and worries that have piled on us in our adult life? However, in fact, studies show that the perceived time does indeed move faster for adults, filling our lives with chores and fuss.
There are several theories that try to explain why our sense of time speeds up as we get older.
One of them points to a gradual change in our internal biological clock. The slowdown in our metabolism as we get older corresponds to the slowdown in our heart rate and breathing. Biological pacemakers in children pulse faster, which means that their biological parameters (heartbeat, breathing) are higher in a set period of time, so the time also feels longer.
Another theory suggests that the passage of time we experience is related to the amount of new information we take in. With a large number of new stimuli occurring, our brain takes longer to process the information - thus, this period of time is felt longer. This could also explain the "slow perception of reality" that is often reported to take place in the seconds before the accident. To face unusual circumstances means to receive an avalanche of new information that needs to be processed.
In fact, it may be that when faced with new situations, our brains capture more detailed memories, so that it is our memory of the event that appears more slowly, and not the event itself. That this is true was demonstrated in an experiment with people experiencing free fall.
But how does all this explain the constant shortening of perceived time as we age? The theory goes that the older we get, the more familiar our surroundings become. We do not notice the details of the environment around us at home and at work. For children, the world is often an unfamiliar place, where there are many new experiences that can be obtained. This means that children must use significantly more intellectual power to transform their mental representations of the outside world. This theory suggests that in this way time passes more slowly for children than for adults who are stuck in the routine of everyday life.
Thus, the more familiar our daily life becomes, the faster it seems to us that time passes, and, as a rule, a habit is formed with age.
It has been suggested that the biochemical mechanism underlying this theory is nothing more than the release of a neurotransmitter hormone upon the perception of new stimuli that help us learn to measure time. After 20 and before old age, the level of this hormone of happiness drops, which is why it seems to us that time passes faster.
But still, it seems that none of these theories can quite accurately explain where the coefficient of time acceleration comes from, which increases almost with mathematical constancy.
The apparent shortening of a certain period as we grow older suggests the existence of a "logarithmic scale" with respect to time. Logarithmic scales are used instead of the traditional linear scales when measuring the strength of an earthquake or the loudness of a sound. Since the quantities we measure can vary and reach enormous powers, we need a scale with a wider range of measurements in order to really understand what is happening. The same can be said about time.
On the logarithmic Richter scale (for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes), an increase in magnitude from 10 to 11 is different from a 10% increase in ground wobble, which a linear scale would not show. Each increment point on the Richter scale corresponds to a tenfold increase in vibration.
Infancy
But why should our perception of time also be measured on a logarithmic scale? The fact is that we correlate any period of time with a part of the life that we have already lived. For two-year-olds, a year is half of their life, which is why when you are small, it seems that birthdays have to wait so long.
For 10-year-olds, a year is only 10% of their life (which makes the wait a little more bearable), and for 20-year-olds, it's only 5%. On a logarithmic scale, a 20-year-old would have to wait until he was 30 to experience the same proportional increase in time that a 2-year-old baby experiences in anticipating his next birthday. no wonder time seems to speed up as we get older.
We usually think of our lives in terms of decades - our 20s, our 30s, and so on - they are presented as equivalent periods. However, if we take a logarithmic scale, it turns out that we mistakenly perceive different periods of time as periods of the same duration. Within the framework of this theory, the following age periods will be perceived equally: from five to ten, from ten to 20, from 20 to 40 and from 40 to 80 years.
I don't want to end on a depressing note, but it turns out that five years of your experience, spanning the ages of five to ten, is perceived to be equivalent to a period of life spanning the ages of 40 to 80.
Well, mind your own business. Time flies, whether you enjoy life or not. And every day it flies faster and faster.
Here's a slightly related topic on why we don't remember being kids.
According to Freud
Sigmund Freud drew attention to children's forgetfulness. In his 1905 work Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, he reflected in particular on amnesia, which covers the first five years of a child's life. Freud was sure that childhood (infantile) amnesia is not a consequence of functional memory disorders, but stems from the desire to prevent early experiences from entering the child's mind - traumas that harm one's own "I". The father of psychoanalysis considered such traumas to be experiences associated with the knowledge of one's own body or based on sensory impressions from what one heard or saw. Fragments of memories that can still be observed in the child's mind, Freud called masking.
"Activation"
The results of a study by Emory University scientists Patricia Bayer and Marina Larkina, published in the journal Memory, support the theory about the time of birth of childhood amnesia. According to scientists, its “activation” occurs in all the inhabitants of the planet without exception at the age of seven. The scientists conducted a series of experiments in which three-year-old children were asked to tell their parents about the most vivid impressions. Years later, the researchers returned to the tests: they invited the same children again and asked them to recall what they had been told. Five-seven-year-old participants in the experiment were able to recall 60% of what was happening to them at the age of three years, while eight-ten-year-olds - no more than 40%. Thus, scientists were able to put forward a hypothesis that childhood amnesia occurs at the age of 7 years.
Habitat
Canadian psychology professor Carol Peterson believes that, among other factors, the formation of childhood memories is influenced by the environment. He was able to confirm his hypothesis as a result of a large-scale experiment, in which Canadian and Chinese children became participants. They were asked to recall the most vivid memories of the first years of life in four minutes. Twice as many events came to life in the memory of Canadian children as in the memory of Chinese children. It is also interesting that Canadians predominantly recalled personal stories, while the Chinese shared memories in which their family or peer group was an accomplice.
Guilty without guilt?
The Ohio State Research University Medical Center believes that children cannot reconcile their memories with a specific place and time, so it becomes impossible to restore episodes from their own childhood at a later age. Discovering the world for himself, the child does not make it difficult to link what is happening to temporal or spatial criteria. According to one of the co-authors of the study, Simon Dennis, children do not feel the need to remember events along with "overlapping circumstances." A child may remember the merry clown at the circus, but is unlikely to say that the show started at 5:30 pm.
For a long time it was also believed that the reason for forgetting the memories of the first three years of life lies in the inability to associate them with specific words. The child cannot describe what happened due to the lack of speech skills, so his mind blocks "unnecessary" information. In 2002, a study on the relationship between language and childhood memory was published in the journal Psychological Science. Its authors Gabriel Simcock and Harleen Hein conducted a series of experiments in which they tried to prove that children who have not yet learned to speak are not able to "code" what is happening to them into memories.
Memory erasing cells
Canadian scientist Paul Frankland, who is actively studying the phenomenon of childhood amnesia, disagrees with his colleagues. He believes that the formation of childhood memories occurs in the zone of short-term memory. He insists that young children can remember their childhood, colorfully talk about ongoing events, in which they were recently involved. However, these memories fade over time. A group of scientists led by Frankland suggested that the loss of childhood memories may be associated with an active process of formation of new cells, which is called neurogenesis. According to Paul Frankland, it was previously thought that the formation of neurons leads to the formation of new memories, but recent studies have shown that neurogenesis is able to simultaneously erase information about the past. Why, then, do people not remember most often the first three years of life? The reason is that the most active period of neurogenesis falls on this time. The neurons then start reproducing at a slower rate and leave some of the childhood memories intact.
Experienced
To test their assumptions, Canadian scientists conducted an experiment on rodents. Mice were placed in a cage with a flooring, on which weak electrical discharges were fired. A repeated visit to the cage led adult mice to panic even after a month. But young rodents willingly visited the cage the very next day. Scientists have also been able to understand how neurogenesis affects memory. To do this, they artificially caused the acceleration of neurogenesis in the experimental subjects - the mice quickly forgot about the pain that arose when visiting the cage. According to Paul Frankland, neurogenesis is more of a blessing than a bad thing, because it helps protect the brain from an overabundance of information.
Planted in time, it sprouts in time.
Abh.
Time seems to me like an immense ocean that has swallowed up many great writers, caused accidents in others, and smashed some to smithereens.
D. Addison
Minutes, like frisky horses, fly,
You look around - the sunset is already close.
Al Ma'arri
Time and the course of the river do not wait for man.
English
A tree, no matter how powerful and strong its roots, can be uprooted in an hour, but it takes years for it to bear fruit.
As-Samarkandi
All life will fly by like a crazy wind,
You can't stop her at any cost.
Y. Balasaguni
Time is the capital of the knowledge worker.
O. Balzac
Perishes in the stream of time only that which is devoid of a strong grain of life and which, therefore, is not worth living.
V. Belinsky
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills its students.
E. Berlioz
Everything in the world has its time, everything under heaven has its hour. There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to sow and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time for war and a time for peace.
Bible
It takes one day for some major evil to come into the world, but it will take several centuries to wipe it off the face of the earth.
L. Blanks
A person's real life begins at the age of fifty. During these years, a person masters what true achievements are based on, acquires what can be given to others, learns what can be taught, clears what can be built on.
E. Bock
Use the current time in such a way that in old age you do not reproach yourself for your youth lived in vain.
D. Boccaccio
Peers leave. Mode
The eternal change is indestructible.
I look after them, gray-haired, yesterday,
And it's scary to be alone
Me with a generation of a stranger.
L. Boleslavsky
At a certain age, decent people forgive each other's mistakes and previous weaknesses, while the stormy passions that drew a sharp line between them give way to tender affection.
P. Beaumarchais
It is impossible to repeat your youth, to regain your youthful audacity, beauty, even gait.
Y. Bondarev
Childhood strives for life, adolescence tastes it, youth revels in it, mature age tastes of it, old age pities it, decrepitude gets used to it.
P. Buast
Each age has its advantages, and youth with the forces lurking in it has especially many of them. Who cares about the future, he is most concerned about the younger generation. But being spiritually dependent on him, fawning over him, listening to his opinion, taking him as a criterion - this indicates the spiritual weakness of society.
S. Bulgakov
To choose the time means to save time, and what is done out of time is done in vain.
F. Bacon
Of all things, time belongs to us least of all, and we lack it most of all.
J. Buffon
One of the most irreplaceable losses is the loss of time.
J. Buffon
At twenty I considered myself a wise man, at thirty I began to suspect that I was nothing more than a fool. My rules were shaky, my judgments lacked restraint, my passions contradicted one another.
F. Weiss
The prejudice lies in the very common belief that the age of youth is a privileged time for happiness. On the contrary, true joys can be known and appreciated only in adulthood, from about thirty to fifty years.
F. Weiss
A whole life is short for happy people, and for unhappy people even one night is certainly a long one.
Lucian
Life is not given to anyone as property, but only for a while.
Lucretius
Although life is short, many people get bored with it.
G. Malkin
Time is a precious gift given to us in order to become smarter, better, more mature and more perfect in it.
T. Mann
Sadder than the look of a young pessimist can only be the look of an old optimist.
Mark Twain
Time is a space for the development of abilities.
K. Marx
All savings ultimately come down to saving time.
K. Marx
The process of life consists in passing through different ages. But at the same time, all ages of a person exist side by side ...
K. Marx
Before the past - bow your head, before the future - roll up your sleeves.
G. Mencken
It takes something more than talent to understand the present, something more than genius to foresee the future, and yet it is so easy to explain the past.
A. Mitskevich
The measure of life is not in duration, but in how you use it.
M. Montaigne
No one voluntarily distributes his property, but everyone shares his time with his neighbor without hesitation. We throw away nothing more readily than our own time, although it is only in relation to the latter that thrift would be useful and worthy of praise.
M. Montaigne
Time is the most honest critic.
A. Morua
I always showed up a quarter of an hour before the appointed time, and this made me a man.
G. Nelson
Fertilize the past and give birth to the future - that's what the present should be.
F. Nietzsche
The longer a person remains a child, the longer the life.
Novalis
Time is a mirage, it shortens in moments of happiness and stretches out in hours of suffering.
R. Aldington
A person can live up to a hundred years. We ourselves, by our intemperance, by our disorderliness, by our ugly treatment of our own organism, reduce this normal period to a much smaller figure.
I. Pavlov
We are never limited to the present. We wish the future to come soon, we regret that it is moving towards us so slowly; or we remember the past, we want to keep it, but it quickly runs away from us. We are so foolish that we wander in times that do not belong to us, not thinking about what is given to us. We vainly dwell in thought in times that no longer exist, and without reflection we miss the present.
B. Pascal
A person must arrange his life in accordance with one of two assumptions: 1) that he will live forever; 2) that his term on earth is fleeting, perhaps less than an hour; so it really is.
B. Pascal
I wrote this letter longer than usual because I didn't have time to write it shorter.
B. Pascal
Our deepest regret is the excessive and unjustified swiftness of time ... Before you have time to come to your senses, youth is already fading and eyes are dimming. Meanwhile, you have not yet seen even a hundredth of the charm that life has scattered around.
K. Paustovsky
Time is the wisest adviser.
Pericles
In all human life there is not a single moment in which it would be permissible to treat a person lightly and carelessly.
L. Pisarev
Know the time for everything.
Pittacus
Nothing is more painful to a wise man and nothing gives him more anxiety than the need to spend more time on trifles and useless things than they deserve.
Plato
How frail is man, how truncated, how short is the longest human life!
Pliny the Younger
You can put up with the disorderly confusion in the life of a young man; the old people face a calm, orderly life: it is too late to exert one's strength, it is shameful to seek honors.
Pliny the Younger
The happier the time, the shorter it is.
Pliny the Younger
After all, even for a glorious deed there is an appropriate age and a suitable time, and in general the glorious differs from the shameful most of all by the appropriate measure.
Plutarch
Every day there is a student for yesterday.
Publilius Sir
Youth thinks about the present, while mature age does not neglect either the present, or the past, or the future.
F. Rojas
Time is a horse, and you are a rider;
Ride bravely in the wind.
Time is a sword; become a strong stick,
To win the game.
Rudaki
Up to thirty years, the wife warms, after thirty a glass of wine, and after - the oven does not heat.
Rus.
Whoever is unhealthy at twenty, not smart at thirty, and not rich at forty, will never be like this forever.
Rus.
Each age has its own special inclinations, but the person always remains the same. At ten he is under the spell of sweets, at twenty he is under the spell of his beloved, at thirty he is under the spell of pleasure, at forty he is under the spell of ambition, at fifty he is under avarice.
J. J. Rousseau
Good use of time makes time even more precious.
J. J. Rousseau
Time flies faster the closer we get to old age.
E. Senancourt
For one who knows how to use his life well, it is not short.
Seneca the Younger
Is it much joy to live eighty years in idleness? Such a person did not live, and lingered among the living, and did not die late, but died for a long time.
Seneca the Younger
Time and tide never wait.
W. Scott
Forty years - pass,
And remember, darling
You passed a little pass,
You look - the way is over.
Central Asian.
As often happens in unfortunate times, a good decision was made when the time was already lost.
Tacitus
You can admire the antiquity, but you need to follow the present.
Tacitus
Who hides the past jealously
He is unlikely to be in harmony with the future ...
A. Tvardovsky
Time passes, but the spoken word remains.
L. Tolstoy
The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children.
I. Turgenev
The labor and strength of those who lived before us live in us. May, in turn, future generations be able to live thanks to our work, thanks to the strength of our hands and our minds. Only in this case we will adequately fulfill our purpose.
J. Fabre
There is nothing a person can manage more than time.
L. Feuerbach
At twenty years old, desire dominates a person, at thirty years old - reason, at forty years old - reason.
B. Franklin
If time is the most precious thing, then wasting time is the greatest waste.
B. Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrow.
B. Franklin
Time will always respect and support that which is strong, but it will turn into dust that which turns out to be fragile.
A. France
Forty years is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Franz.
Only a few people are able to survey human activity in all its ramifications. The majority is involuntarily forced to confine itself to one, separately taken, or several areas; and the less a man knows of the past and present, the more unreliable will necessarily be his judgment of the future.
3. Freud
If the day has passed, do not remember it,
Do not groan in fear before the coming day,
Don't worry about the future and the past
Know the price of today's happiness!
O. Khayyam
A person's age is expressed not by the number written in the passport, but by the youthfulness of the heart, by how hot it beats in the person's chest. Old age begins from the moment when a person loses touch with the younger generation, when he prevents the young from moving forward. N. Hikmet
Each age has its own characteristics.
Cicero
Recklessness, obviously, is characteristic of a flourishing age, foresight - to the elderly.
Cicero
Youth is the flowering of the soul, maturity is fruiting, old age is the reaping of fruits.
I. Shevelev
Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral person.
N. Shelgunov
Many people live too much in the present: these are windy people; others live too much in the future: they are fearful and restless people. Rarely does anyone keep the proper measure in this case.
A. Schopenhauer
We pass thousands of hours with a sour face, not enjoying them, so that later we sigh for them with vain sadness ...
A. Schopenhauer
The average person is preoccupied with how to kill time, while the talented person seeks to use the time.
A. Schopenhauer
To live long, you need to think about it from a young age.
B. Show
In youth we are reformers, in old age we are conservatives. The conservative seeks prosperity, the reformer seeks justice and truth.
R. Emerson
We ask ourselves a long life, but meanwhile only the depth of life and its lofty moments matter. Let us measure time with a spiritual measure.
R. Emerson
The youth casts aside the illusions of childhood, the husband casts aside the ignorance and violent passions of youth, and further casts aside the husband's egoism and becomes more and more a universal soul. He rises to a higher and more real level of life.
R. Emerson
Indeed, what is the difference between an old man and a child, except for the fact that the former is wrinkled and counts more days from birth? The same white hair, toothless mouth, small stature, addiction to milk, tongue-tied tongue, talkativeness, stupidity, forgetfulness, recklessness. In short, they are alike in every way. The more people age, the closer they are to children, and, finally, like real babies, not disgusted by life, not conscious of death, they leave the world.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Postponement is a time thief.
E. Jung
Let us not move the ages, just like the seasons: we must be ourselves at all times and not fight against nature, for futile efforts waste life and prevent us from enjoying it.
J. J. Rousseau
Not the person who lived the most who can count more than a hundred years, but the one who felt life the most.
J. J. Rousseau
He who does not know the yen of time is not born for glory.
L. Vauvenargues
Whoever does not possess the spirit of his age bears all the grief of this age.
Voltaire
Those who do not behave according to their age always pay the price.
Voltaire
Time does not wait and does not forgive a single lost moment.
N. Garin-Mikhailovsky
No matter how bitter the tear that obscures the sight,
Time and patience will dry it up.
F. Garth
It is impossible to make up for anything in life - everyone should learn this truth as early as possible.
X. Goebbel
Stop, moment! You are wonderful
I. Goethe
The loss of time is the hardest for the one who knows the most.
I. Goethe
With age, silence becomes a friend of man.
E. Goncourt and J. Goncourt
We will always keep in accordance with the age of each.
Horace
Everyone should have an age-appropriate appearance.
Horace
Without knowing the past, it is impossible to understand the true meaning of the present and the goals of the future.
M. Gorky
Gray hair denotes age, not wisdom.
Greek
The delusion that the past is better than the present seems to have been prevalent in all ages.
X. Grills
Everything in the world the true price
Perfectly knows time - only it
Sweeps the husk, blows off the foam
And decanting wine into amphoras.
I. Huberman
Among the influences that shorten life, fear, sadness, despondency, melancholy, cowardice, envy, and hatred occupy a predominant place.
K. Hufeland
Age is a tyrant that rules.
E. Delacroix
The light, fast flow of the river represents our youth, the surging sea - courage, and the quiet calm lake - old age.
G. Derzhavin
Tomorrow is an old rogue who will always be able to trick you.
S. Johnson
We rejoice at the sunset and rejoice at the sunrise and do not think that the course of the sun measures our life.
Ancient Ind.
Time drags on and years fly by.
V. Zubkov
As soon as a person begins to receive compliments from friends about how young he looks, he can be sure that, in their opinion, he has begun to age.
W. Irving
If you don't remember the past, you won't understand the present.
Kazakh.
Time goes slowly when you follow it ... It feels like being watched. But it takes advantage of our distraction. It is even possible that there are two times: the one we follow and the one that transforms us.
A. Camus
The years of youth pass so slowly because they are full of events, the years of old age run so fast because they are predetermined.
A. Camus
Youth is a gift of nature, and maturity is a work of art.
G. Kanin
Time and chance can do nothing for those who do nothing for themselves.
D. Canning
Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But it's not. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom.
I. Kant
Waste of time is the worst of all evils.
C. Cantu
Time is just a sequence of our thoughts.
N. Karamzin
Man must not complain about the times; nothing comes of it. Time is bad: well, that's what a person is for, to improve it.
T. Carlyle
He got up late - he lost a day, he did not study in his youth - he lost his life.
Whale.
It's too late to admit to a mistake when the whole ship is under water.
Claudian
Time is like a skillful steward, constantly producing new talents to replace those that have disappeared.
Kozma Prutkov
Human life is multiplied by the amount of time saved.
F. Collier
The wise distribution of time is the basis for activity.
Ya. Comenius
At the age of fifteen, I turned my thoughts to studies. At the age of thirty, I became independent. At the age of forty, I got rid of my doubts. At fifty, I knew the will of heaven. At sixty
years I learned to distinguish the truth from the untruth. At the age of seventy, I began to follow the desires of my heart.
Confucius
The daring of youth and the wisdom of mature years -
This is the source of world victories.
G. Krzhizhanovsky
Days off are also counted in the term of life.
E. Meek
The inability to save one's own and other people's time is a real lack of culture.
N. Krupskaya
Time, unlike money, cannot be accumulated.
B. Krutier
No matter how much you start life over, it will not become longer.
B. Krutier
He who does not know how to properly use his time is the first to complain about his lack: he kills days for dressing, eating, sleeping, empty talk, thinking about what should be done, and just doing nothing.
J. La Bruyère
"Tomorrow" is the great enemy of "today"; "tomorrow" paralyzes our strength, makes us powerless, keeping us inactive.
E. Laboulet
Don't put off anything until tomorrow - that's the secret of someone who knows the value of time.
E. Laboulet
No matter how fast time flies, it moves extremely slowly for someone who only watches its movement.
S. Johnson
The days are so long and the years are so short.
A. Dode