Quotes about time
Welcome to our Time collection, a contemplation of the eternal dance of moments, memories, and the elusive essence that defines our existence. In this curated compilation of quotes, we delve into the enigmatic concept of time, celebrating its fluidity, significance, and the way it shapes our lives.
Time is more than minutes ticking away; it's the fabric upon which our stories are woven, the measure of our experiences, and the canvas for dreams yet to unfold. Our Time quotes honor the nostalgia of memories, the urgency of the present, and the hope that resides in the future.
Whether you're a philosopher pondering the nature of time, a historian tracing its footprints through eras, or simply captivated by the rhythm of day turning into night, these quotes offer insights into the profound relationship between humanity and the passage of time.
Embark on a journey that explores the fleeting nature of moments, the lessons that emerge from the past, and the power of living in the present. Discover the significance of milestones, the art of savoring the present, and the way time shapes our perspectives, challenges, and the art of moving forward.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistStuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorAnd what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.
Perry Como
— SingerJust the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistAny artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Antonio Machado
— PoetHell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsHang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestIn the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesUsually, the biggest hang-up is the script. You could have a script done in six months that you love, or it could be like The Fantastic Four it's been almost 10 years.
Mary Ellen Chase
— New England's Literary VoiceEven one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerTime is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterIf time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorLearning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostOmnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.
Chadwick Boseman
— American actorYou have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.
Lindy West
— American writer, comedian and activistWe only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanAgain its time to pray for peace.
Allen Ginsberg
— American poet and writerYou can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistTime isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
— English poet, playwright, novelist, and criticFor the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Bethany Mota
— American video bloggerI rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized there is always something I could be doing. Whenever I have free time, I love using that time to improve myself in different ways. If you think about it, there are tons of things we still don't know much about.
Yves Saint Laurent
— French fashion designerI tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressMy philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!
Albert Camus
— French PhilosopherBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerI like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Gianni Versace
— Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessmanI want to be a designer for my time.
David Crosby
— American singer-songwriter and musicianDon't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
Aristotle
— Greek PhilosopherWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIt sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestZen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerIt all comes down to this:
If you want one year of happiness, grow grain
If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees
If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterBetween the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorGiger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanI don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
— English poet, playwright, novelist, and criticBefore the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.
Gianni Versace
— Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessmanI am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe 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.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWhen snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestTo Zen, time and eternity are one.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanYou don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNear the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIf space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThen I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThis web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterEmma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterHis life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is the substance of which we are made
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIn vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLeaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThere are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterOn the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhat man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.