Time Quotes

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

~ Thiruvalluvar

Life is defined by time. Time defined moments. Time is priceless gift.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.

~ Saravana Kumar Murugan

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your life, your history. How do you want to write the history of your life today…?

~ James A. Murphy

Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.

~ Gloria Tesch

Enjoy the time of existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

~ Osho

Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

~ Gary Lutz

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

~ Dean Koontz

We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than ‘exist’.

~ Fennel Hudson

It takes time, or does time take it?

~ Anthony Liccione

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

~ Michel Faber

I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know how to hurry.

~ Alberto Caeiro

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

~ Henry Miller

It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the present, it would seem like it had been a single movement that brought her there. Did existence ever seem worked for? One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

~ Tao Lin

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

~ James Joyce

Whenever they were together they couldn't let sixty of their minutes pass without asking each other what time it was; as if time was a volatile currency that they either possessed or did not possess, when in fact time was more of a fog that rose inexorably over all their words and deeds so that their were either forgotten or misremembered.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again. At least, it seemed kinda long. But nothing warps time quite like childhood. I remember visits to faraway worlds that lasted only a few days but felt like entire lifetimes. And then there were the endless journeys between destinations that somehow went by in the blink of an eye. You know how it goes.

~ Brian K. Vaughan

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

~ Storm Constantine

The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard.

~ Georgess Mchargue

I learned by heart the lines of your face. I can draw them blindly on a water canvas.Your face in the middle of an inflamed argument. Your face in the middle of a mild one-- when you're at fault.Your face filled with rainbows of laughter. Your face filled with clouds of distress.Your face, fluttering, when I open you the door. Your face, agonizing, every time I stand waiting, for the elevator.Your face, eager, when you kiss me. Your face, surprised, when I lead you to bed.Your face in the middle of pain. Your face on the outskirts of pleasure.Your face, with a baffled look, when you wake up. Your face falling asleep, with total surrender.Your face the first night we met. Your face the last night we parted.I learned by heart the lines of your face. They all led me into hell.They all led me into heaven.

~ Malak El Halabi

Life is defined by time and seasons.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

~ Daniel Wallace

But thought’s the slave of life, and life time’s fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue

~ William Shakespeare

When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

~ David Lipsky

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

~ Raheel Farooq

When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.

~ Craig Groeschel

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

~ Craig Groeschel

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

~ Robin Hobb

He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.

~ Jonas Jonasson

Live. For Now. For the time being.

~ Ruth Ozeki

I'll date you, love...not you and your iPad. I can't feel plastic palm play; I'm live like Memorex.

~ T.f. Hodge

We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.

~ Lindy West

How one lives during limited time on earth's school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.

~ T.f. Hodge

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

~ Anthony Liccione