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.

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

Johnny Depp

There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett

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

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

Gayle Forman

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

Jennifer Egan

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan W. Watts

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

Samuel Beckett

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

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

Nalini Singh

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

Henry James

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Karl Lagerfeld

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

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

Markus Zusak

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

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

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

William Faulkner

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

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

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

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Michael R. Phillips

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Criss Jami

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

Robert Greene

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

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

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

Martin Luther

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

Vincent van Gogh

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

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

Neil Gaiman

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

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