100+ Time Quotes & Sayings

100+ Time Quotes & Sayings

127 Quotes

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend so we're sharing the most famous quotes about time from the best famous scientists, novelists, authors.

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.

Diogenes Laërtius

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Jim Morrison

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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Erich Fromm

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

Gayle Forman

i dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday.

Gerard Way

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Marcus Aurelius

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

Marie Lu

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Graham Greene

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Gustave Flaubert

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Haruki Murakami

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

Haruki Murakami

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Haruki Murakami

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Martin Luther

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.

Michael R. Phillips

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Helen Humphreys

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Henry James

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen

The years teach much the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Ray Bradbury

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

Jeaniene Frost

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around? Scotty shook his head. The goon won.

Jennifer Egan

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

Shannon L. Alder

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.

Sharon Swan

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

Shauna Niequist

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

Toba Beta

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joan Didion

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

John Milton

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

John Paul II

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Johnny Depp

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...

José Saramago

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Joyce Carol Oates

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

Julian Barnes

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