Time & Life Quotes

Life is like a dream, I pour a libation to the river moon.

人生如梦，一尊还酹江月。

Tomorrow after tomorrow, how numerous the tomorrows are! If I spend my life waiting for tomorrow, all things will end in wasted time and regret.

明日复明日，明日何其多。我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。

Flowers may bloom again, but youth never returns.

花有重开日，人无再少年。

Do not idly waste your time, for your youthful hair will turn white in vain, leaving only empty sorrow and regret

莫等闲，白了少年头，空悲切。

Time passes like flowing water, never ceasing day or night.

逝者如斯夫，不舍昼夜。