Quotes on time

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Cormac McCarthy

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

Taylor Swift

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

Haruki Murakami

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

John Lubbock

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Mitch Albom

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Cassandra Clare

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”

Jennifer Elisabeth

“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.”

Gayle Forman

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”

Grace Willows

“Time has no meaning,Love will endure..”

Jude Deveraux

“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”

Jennifer Elisabeth

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

Orhan Pamuk

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

Henry Van Dyke

“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”

Jennifer Elisabeth

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”

Priya Ardis

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

Paulo Coelho

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

William Faulkner

“There's no advantage to hurrying through life. -Shikamaru Nara”

Masashi Kishimoto

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”

Karen Thompson Walker

“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since the rest of your life won’t last forever.”

Omar Khayyám

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”

Amal El-Mohtar

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”

John Updike

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

Anna Wintour

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.[]”

Hector Berlioz

“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)”

Erik Pevernagie

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

Anthony G. Oettinger

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”

Steven Moffat

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. ”

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

Salman Rushdie

“I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.”

Eoin Colfer

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

Shannon L. Alder

“I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.”

Suzy Kassem

“Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”

Emil Cioran

“Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.”

Vishwanath S J

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

Patience Johnson

“They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.”

Jake Vander Ark

“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.”

Amit Kalantri

“Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.”

Vishwanath S J

“Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.”

Aberjhani

“If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.”

Benny Bellamacina

“Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

Roman Payne