Time Quotes

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. ‘Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.’ Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

As human beings we can't stop the flow of time, but we can choose to do something constructive with the time that we have.

~ D. Allen Miller

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

~ Claire North

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

~ Wendell Berry

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life turns on small choices.A last-minute decision to take a shortcut over a snowy pass.A shrugging dismissal of the odd-looking man in the long coat standing off to one side.A decision to postpone a physical exam till a less busy time.A word spoken with the best intentions.Looking back, after the lives are destroyed, the blood spilt, the families shattered, and even the courses of nations changed forever, the mistakes that started the doomsday clock ticking down often seem minor, even innocent-even virtuous. So easy to make.David Eller would give anything-no, everything-to go back and undo those mistakes. But life does not give us that chance. Like everyone else, he has no choice but to dangle from the hand of that clock, trying in vain to pull them backward as they tick inexorably toward zero.

~ William Carmichael

Healthy people can own their mistakes and, over time, move on.

~ Kennedy Ryan

He was in hell. Worse than that, he was in hell, and someone had set it on repeat.

~ Dennis Sharpe

All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else.

~ Paolo Giordano

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

~ Mary Downing Hahn

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

~ Nadège Richards

You needn’t worry. I don’t think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all get better with the passage of time. You are not quite ripe. --Lane DeLuca

~ Wynter Wilkins

Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant's toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt their soulsAll live transient lives

~ Kreator

Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!”“Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over.“Ye-ss, I am! Don’t ssup-pose you – think I co-uld ssit here an’ calmly wait t’die – dýou? Weee-ll, not ssob-er anyway. Ha ha ha.”Disgust and hopelessness were swelling inside him. He felt like punching that drunken face till it was either sober or unconscious.“Damn it, Captain! We need you – the crew needs you! You’re turning your back on them – in our most desperate time!

~ Christina Engela

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

~ Craig Groeschel

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

~ Craig Groeschel

The time before was slow, as much as I grow as much the time don't forgive. As most people will say if you fuck the past, the past fucks you!

~ Deyth Banger

You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

~ Kim Dong Hwa

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

~ Scott Turow

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Waqt masiha haeh, har gham ko samaa lega, Lekin waqt haeh, waqt lega. (Time is a messiah, every sorrow it shall contain. But time it is and time it shall take.)

~ Nilesh Rathod

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins

~ John Daniel Thieme

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

~ Alice Hoffman

What you achieve, endures throughout time

~ Rafik Schami

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

~ Verghese Kurien

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

~ Jean Rostand

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,And what is invisible stays that way.

~ Mark Strand

The desire to “do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the periphery: an inefficient utopia, a culture of consensus, collectives, and do-it-yourself ethics. A place where time is not bought, sold, or leased and no clock is the final arbiter of our worth. For many people in North America, the problem is not just poverty but lack of time to do the things that are actually meaningful. This is not a symptom of personal failures but the consequence of a time-obsessed society. Today, desire for efficiency springs from the scarcity model, which is the foundation of capitalism. Time is seen as a limited resource when we get caught up in meaningless jobs, mass-produced entertainment, and – the common complaint of activists – tedious meanings.

~ Curious George Brigade

Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Time heals all wounds. Unless they're infected. Like gangrene. That shit'll kill you.

~ Johnny Moscato

The best time is now. The best thing to do is what you are doing. So do your very best.

~ Debasish Mridha

When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?

~ Debasish Mridha

The time you spend loving is the most valuable time.

~ Debasish Mridha

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

~ Debasish Mridha

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans.

~ Steven Magee