Time Quotes

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

~ Samuel Beckett

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.

~ Iris Murdoch

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

~ Dean Koontz

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.

~ Jerry Garcia

Time owed an alliance to the undying.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together.

~ Joseph Conrad

A los mortales os hace falta compañía porque tenéis tristeza, deseos y un tiempo limitado de vida.

~ Jackson Pearce

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

~ Paulo Coelho

…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.Some people might find that strange.But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.

~ Ranata Suzuki

If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star.

~ T.f. Hodge

Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.

~ T.f. Hodge

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

~ Shaun Hick

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

~ Amit Kalantri

My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Time is always ready.

~ Debasish Mridha

Time is your weapon, If you lose it, you will lose the battle.

~ Khaled Ibrahim

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

~ Debasish Mridha

I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

~ Judith Minty

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

~ Omar Khayyám

Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

~ T.s. Eliot

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

~ Ovid

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

~ Andrew Marvell

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity

~ Mina Loy

To the Virgins, To Make much of TimeGather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting,The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting.That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer;But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former.Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry;For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

~ Robert Herrick

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.

~ Roman Payne

Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.

~ Luís De Camões

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

~ John Clare

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

~ W.h. Davies

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

~ W.b. Yeats

These wrinkles are nothingThese gray hairs are nothing,This stomach which sagswith old food, these bruisedand swollen ankles, my darkening brain,they are nothing.I am the same boymy mother used to kiss.

~ Mark Strand

Had we but world enough, and time

~ Andrew Marvell

Did I live the spring I’d sought?It’s true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day to slumber at my feet.Yet days aren’t lulled by lyric song,like morning birds they pass along,o’er crests of trees, to none belong;o’er crests of trees of drying dew,their larking flight, my hands, eschewThus I’ll say it once and true…From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

~ Roman Payne

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows...

~ W.h. Davies

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

~ Robert Herrick