Time Quotes

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

~ Rainbow Rowell

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

~ John Paul Ii

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

~ Martin Luther

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

~ Alan W. Watts

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

~ Charles Bukowski

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

~ Criss Jami

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

~ William Faulkner

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

~ Fidel Castro

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

~ Benjamin Hoff

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

~ William Gibson

Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

~ William Shakespeare

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

~ Norton Juster

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

~ John Muir

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

~ William Shakespeare

I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day and another year. And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting quite like this again. Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die, the future stretched away in front of us, unknown, unseen, not perhaps what we wanted, not what we planned. This moment was safe though, this could not be touched. Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand-in-hand, and the past and the future mattered not at all. This was secure, this funny little fragment of time he would never remember, never think about again…For them it was just after lunch, quarter-past-three on a haphazard afternoon, like any hour, like any day. They did not want to hold it close, imprisoned and secure, as I did. They were not afraid.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

~ Hermann Hesse

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

~ Jennifer Egan

Time is Galleons, little brother.

~ J.k. Rowling

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

~ Jacqueline Carey

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.

~ Christopher Isherwood

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.

~ Anna Quindlen

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

~ Johnny Depp

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

~ Susanna Clarke

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

~ Moses Hadas

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

~ Marie Lu

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

~ Kim Edwards

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

~ Gayle Forman

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

~ Stephen Hunt

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

~ Helen Humphreys

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

~ Martin Luther

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

~ Graham Greene

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

~ John Milton

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

~ Joan Didion