100+ Profound Time Quotes That'll Change How You Live

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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.

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

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.