tempus fugit
Hours slip away
Tempus fugit is Latin for "time flies," used to observe that time passes quickly or to urge action before it's too late.
The phrase appears in English contexts when speakers want a more literary or weighty tone than the plain English equivalent: Tempus fugit—we'd better get started.
- time fliesPerception of accelerating duration
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- hourglassGravity-powered sand timer
- mortalityState of eventual death
- sundialShadow-based timekeeper
ticking clock · passing · ephemeral · clock · moments · vanishing · transient · sands · sands of time · brevity · swift · aging · golden years · old age · memento mori · deadline · race against time · ticking
- time sayingstime flies, time is money, time heals all wounds, time will tell, carpe diem
- Latin phrasesE pluribus unum, carpe diem, caveat emptor, veni vidi vici, ad astra
- seize todaycarpe diem, seize the day, seize the moment, live for today, present moment
- LatinLatin, Latin vocabulary, Latin roots, Latin alphabet, Latin phrases
- loanwordsloanword, loan words, borrowings, borrowed words, loan word
- elegydirge, eulogy, lament, lamentation, requiem
tempus fugittime stands still
Perceived temporal suspension
eternity · timelessness · time drags · ad infinitum · forever
tempus fugitcarpe diem
Grasp the present moment
seize the day · live for today · mindfulness · make hay while the sun shines
tempus fugiteternity
Boundless temporal existence
permanence · timelessness · sempiternal · everlasting · immutable
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