Time Quotes

As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.

~ Brandon Sanderson

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

~ Julian Barnes

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

~ Haruki Murakami

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

~ George R.r. Martin

Odysseus inclines his head. True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. He spread his broad hands. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows? He smiles. Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

~ Madeline Miller

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

~ Alice Walker

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

~ Michael Ende

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

~ Jeaniene Frost

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, What time is it?And he says, How much time do you want?

~ Diamanda Galás

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

~ Robert Greene

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

~ Samuel Beckett

It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.

~ W.g. Sebald

Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.

~ Jason Myers

TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes,the more it's gone—the more it takes away.

~ Lang Leav

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

~ Patricia Briggs

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

~ John Steinbeck

He shrugs. Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens.Laila whispers, He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

~ Kasie West

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

~ P.g. Wodehouse

If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.

~ George Head

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

~ Brian K. Vaughan

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

~ C.s. Lewis

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

~ John Green

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

~ Horace Mann

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.

~ Masanobu Fukuoka

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

~ Eugene O'neill

how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it.

~ Eoin Colfer

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

~ Erich Fromm

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

~ Carl Sagan

There was a beautiful time...

~ Sylvia Plath

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.

~ Katherine Paterson

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

~ Milan Kundera

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

~ Roman Payne

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

~ J.g. Ballard

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.

~ Monty Roberts

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes.In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

~ Elizabeth Goudge