Time Quotes

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

~ Paul Sheehan

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

~ Silvia Hartmann

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

~ Michael Leboeuf

Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.

~ Steve Goodier

There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

~ David Foster Wallace

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

~ Caleb Carr

Time did not compose her.

~ Jane Austen

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

~ Marcel Proust

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

~ A.w. Tozer

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

~ Martha Graham

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

~ Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

~ Diane Ackerman

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did not grow into a noontime. There was never a noon that did not fall into afternoon. There was never an afternoon that did not fade toward evening. There never was a day yet that did not get buried in the graveyard of the night. In this way transience makes a ghost out of everything that happens to us.

~ John O'donohue

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

~ Roman Payne

Nick... I hope one day you find you a woman who loves you like my Melissa loved me. Whatever you do, boy, don't turn your back on her. If she says she needs you for something, don't matter how stupid it sounds or what deadline you got, you go to her and you do it. Screw work or whatever else. In the end, the only things that matter are the people in your life. The ones who make your life worth living and whose smiles light up your world. Don't ever push them aside for fair-weather friends. Everything else is just cheap window dressing that you can replace. But once them people are gone... He winced. You can't buy back time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get more of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes pity on no soul and no heart. And all those fools who tell you it gets easier in time are lying dumb-asses. Losing someone you really love don't never get easier. You just go a few hours longer without breaking down. That's all... that's all. - Bubba

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

...people change, even good people, if they get the wrong thing in their head. And not everything is always what it looks like and sometimes just because one person looks weak, they might be very strong, and another person might look like a spooky freak but he might be one of the kindest people you'd ever meet. And I guess I learned that time is slippery...We have to enjoy every second, love with all our hearts, all we can, while we can.

~ Lee Thompson

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

~ Marie Beynon Ray

But that’s the trouble with moments—they end. ~Narrator

~ S.m. Boyce

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

~ John Burroughs

We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

~ C.s. Lewis

This world is out of date

~ Kamila Shamsie

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

~ Jeanette Winterson

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

~ Thiruvalluvar

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

~ Mitch Albom

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

~ Veronica Roth

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normalpeople with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’texist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark,godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days runtogether like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. Younever really know where you are or what time it is, and the outsideworld starts to fade away.It’s cool.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

Everyday is one less day.

~ Tom Ford

Today is an ephemeral ghost...A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not exist.In mundane terms, it marks a leap in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...A day of unlocked potential.Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't

~ Vera Nazarian

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

~ Orson Scott Card

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.

~ Virginia Woolf

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

~ Vanna Bonta

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

~ Mary Balogh

Six a.m.! Xander cried. I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!

~ Alice Henderson

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

~ Aeschylus

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.

~ Haruki Murakami

I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

~ Gary Jennings

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

~ Ally Carter