Time Quotes

This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

~ Gustave Flaubert

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

~ Mitch Albom

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

~ Tim Winton

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.

~ Isabel Allende

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

~ Sheri Dew

We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

~ Erlend Loe

I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.

~ Steve Maraboli

For after the Battle comes quiet.

~ H.g. Wells

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

~ Frank H. Knight

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

~ Samantha Sotto

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

~ Rohinton Mistry

We are all migrants through time.

~ Mohsin Hamid

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

~ Priya Ardis

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Nothing endures but change.

~ Heraclitus

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

~ Markus Zusak

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

~ Alan Moore

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

~ Terry Pratchett

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

~ Laini Taylor

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

~ Paulo Coelho

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.

~ Cassandra Clare

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

~ Eoin Colfer

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

~ Emily Giffin

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

~ Simon Van Booy

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

~ Jack London

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

~ Meg Rosoff

Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

~ Dan Simmons

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

~ Orrin Woodward

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

~ Alexander Graham Bell

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

~ Emily Giffin

There is always time for another last minute

~ Terry Pratchett

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

~ William Shakespeare

Time heals all wounds.

~ Stephen King

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

~ Hector Berlioz