Time Quotes

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

~ George Harrison

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

You may delay, but time will not.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

~ Bill Watterson

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

~ Lauren Oliver

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

~ William Faulkner

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

~ Dr. Seuss

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

~ William Penn

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

~ Jean Genet

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

~ Jim Morrison

For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

~ Haruki Murakami

My past is everything I failed to be.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

~ Tennessee Williams

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

~ Jodi Picoult

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

~ Ray Cummings

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

~ Alan W. Watts

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

~ Khaled Hosseini

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

~ Philip K. Dick

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

~ Susan Sontag

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

~ Nicholas Sparks

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

~ Markus Zusak

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

~ M. Scott Peck

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

~ Norman Maclean

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

~ Neil Gaiman

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

~ Anthony Doerr

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

~ Jane Austen

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

~ Walt Disney Company

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

~ Colette

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

~ Mitch Albom

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

~ Bill Cosby

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

~ Matthew Quick

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

~ Alan W. Watts

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

~ Miranda July

Time's the thief of memory

~ Stephen King

I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Time will explain.

~ Jane Austen