Time Quotes

Most of the time, our fight is all about saving us from ourselves.

~ Akshay Vasu

Hope can kill you but it will not let you die.

~ Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

With time we will all stop fighting pimples and start fighting wrinkles.

~ Moffat Machingura

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

~ John Masefield

Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

~ Christina Scalise

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

~ Don Delillo

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

~ Anna Funder

Time reveals the truth.

~ J.r. Rim

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

~ Sara Sheridan

Pressure knocks at my doorA clock ticks and demands its dueThe lava burns from the floorBut not in a game like it used to.So little time to figure it all outSo many distractions to prevent successI’m in a dark forest with no path or routeBut this internal fire knows no rest.

~ Justin Wetch

Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the video camera at the first contact, as it can go sour at any time and without warning.

~ Steven Magee

And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along gently. Burning. The sun and every clock on the earth. It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.

~ Ray Bradbury

I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.

~ Deyth Banger

Vacation time is something we all accrue, but only the wisest of us recognize its importance.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

~ Henrietta C. Mears

Time becomes meaningless without memory.

~ Jon Edgell

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.

~ Jon Edgell

Time flies when you grow fangs and fur.

~ Dianna Hardy

It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.

~ Beth Ramsay

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

~ D.h. Lawrence

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

~ Michael Paterniti

Life seems to flood by, taking our loves quickly in its flow. In the growth of children, in the aging of beloved parents, time's chart is magnified, shown in its particularity, focused, so that with each celebration of maturity there is also a pang of loss. This is our human problem, one common to parents, sons and daughters, too - how to let go while holding tight, how to simultaneously cherish the closeness and intricacy of the bond while at the same time letting out the raveling string, the red yarn that ties our hearts.

~ Louise Erdrich

Time only goes in that one direction.

~ Kathleen Rooney

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

~ Ann Druyan

I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

~ Emma Cline

As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done.

~ Jonathan Goldstein

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

~ Fredrik Backman

My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth had that happened? The realization made me want to sit down on the stairs and cry. It seemed to signify something terrible about the world: something that couldn't - or mustn't- be put into words. And I could see, looking down into her startled, anxious face, that my mother felt exactly the same way.

~ John Wray

Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like.

~ Bernard Sumner

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

~ Lord Dunsany

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

~ Andrew Solomon

I am tarred and feathered with Time.

~ Ogden Nash

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

~ Anthony Marra

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

~ Maija Haavisto

It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start.

~ Nathacha Appanah

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

~ Robert Hellenga

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

~ Derrick Jensen

It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time.

~ Avinash Rao

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

~ William Shakespeare