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.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

Julian Barnes

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khaled Hosseini

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Kim Edwards

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.

Lao Tzu

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

Markus Zusak

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

Markus Zusak

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Miranda July

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Mitch Albom

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

Mitch Albom

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

I’ll wait for you to find me again. So don’t take too long.-Dmitri

Nalini Singh

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Neil Gaiman

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

Nicholas Sparks

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Nicholas Sparks

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Norton Juster

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

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

Rainbow Rowell

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Randy Pausch

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Robert Greene

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Sarah Dessen

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

Sarah Dessen

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

Simone Elkeles

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Stephen Hunt

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Susanna Clarke

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

T.S. Eliot

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Tennessee Williams

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Terry Pratchett

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Tim Winton

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Victoria Moran

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vincent van Gogh

I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness

Vladimir Nabokov

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