- “First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.” ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- “Time is a structured perception towards observable changes.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
- “Gazing on a trillion stars, each reticent; mankind sells itself the illusion of accomplishment” ― Gyan Nagpal
- “What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life” ― Sunday Adelaja
- “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories
- “Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.” ― Gerald M. Givens
- “It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. ‘Oh,’ Izzie said, ‘You’re at an age when a girl is simply consumed by the sublime.’ Ursula wasn’t sure what she meant (‘No one is ever sure what she means,’ Sylvie said) but she thought she understood a little. There was a strangeness in the shimmering air, a sense of imminence that made Ursula’s chest feel full, as if her heart was growing. It was a kind of high holiness – she could think of no other way of describing it. Perhaps it was the future, she thought, coming nearer all the time.” ― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
- “There really will be seventeen world wars?” asked Wade.“No, only sixteen that we know of. Everyone got together and agreed to skip number thirteen, because it would be unlucky.” ― Steve Bates, Back To You
- “There has never been a time in history where so many citizens are surveilling their corrupt government.” ― Steven Magee
- “Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.” ― Richmal Crompton, Family Roundabout
- “You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky,” Gwynneth said. “The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon’s light that you felt and remember.” Gwynneth paused. “It is the value, the quality that lives on.” ― Kathryn Lasky, Lone Wolf
- “Whether you believe in this idea or not, Time changes everyone, it changes everything. Everyone and every thing is a product of the Time they go through. What goes up, comes down, only to go up again; and what goes around, comes around. When you awaken to this truth, you learn to keep the Faith, to trust the process of Life, and to be patient through your journey here.” ― AVIS Viswanathan
- You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxto
- “Take time to think.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.” ― Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
- “We must keep in mind that we have limited time, and it is not wise to waste your time doing the wrong thing.” ― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
- “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that smile her eyes began.” ― W.H. Davies, Common Joys and Other Poems
- “Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert in the history of religions, and perhaps this is nothing new–do you happen to know if there was ever a belief in an…imperfect God?”What do you mean by imperfect?’ Snow frowned. ‘In a way all the gods of the old religions were imperfect, considered that their attributes were amplified human ones. The God of the Old Testament, for instance, required humble submission and sacrifices, and and was jealous of other gods. The Greek gods had fits of sulks and family quarrels, and they were just as imperfect as mortals…”No,’ I interrupted. ‘I’m not thinking of a god whose imperfection arises out of the candor of his human creators, but one whose imperfection represents his essential characteristic: a god limited in his omniscience and power, fallible, incapable of foreseeing the consequences of his acts, and creating things that lead to horror. He is a…sick god, whose ambitions exceed his powers and who does not realize it at first. A god who has created clocks, but not the time they measure. He has created systems or mechanisms that serves specific ends but have now overstepped and betrayed them. And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat.’Snow hesitated, but his attitude no longer showed any of the wary reserve of recent weeks:’There was Manicheanism…”Nothing at all to do with the principles of Good and Evil,’ I broke in immediately. ‘This god has no existence outside of matter. He would like to free himself from matter, but he cannot…’Snow pondered for a while:’I don’t know of any religion that answers your description. That kind of religion has never been…necessary. If i understand you, and I’m afraid I do, what you have in mind is an evolving god, who develops in the course of time, grows, and keeps increasing in power while remaining aware of his powerlessness. For your god, the divine condition is a situation without a goal. And understanding that, he despairs. But isn’t this despairing god of yours mankind, Kelvin? Is it man you are talking about, and that is a fallacy, not just philosophically but also mystically speaking.’I kept on:’No, it’s nothing to do with man. man may correspond to my provisional definition from some point of view, but that is because the definition has a lot of gaps. Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve is age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside. If there was only a since human being in existence, he would apparently be able to attempt the experiment of creating his own goals in complete freedom–apparently, because a man not brought up among other human beings cannot become a man. And the being–the being I have in mind–cannot exist in the plural, you see? …Perhaps he has already been born somewhere, in some corner of the galaxy, and soon he will have some childish enthusiasm that will set him putting out one star and lighting another. We will notice him after a while…”We already have,’ Snow said sarcastically. ‘Novas and supernovas. According to you they are candles on his altar.”If you’re going to take what I say literally…’…Snow asked abruptly:’What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?”I don’t know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose–a god who simply is.” ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
- “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “To mourn the unexpected death Of a thousand fetuses, I fire up the yellow dusk, and watch the time standing motionless.” ― Geeta Tripathee
- “The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion, an illegitimate extrapolation of our own experience.” ― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
- “There is no such thing as ‘I do not have the time’. This is all just a matter of priorities.” ― Maciej Aniserowicz
- “صروف الزمان يصرفها الزمان” ― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب
- “Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.” ― Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
- “If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that we would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches. The gnomons’s shadow falls where it falls – and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime’s worth of steps have taken us.” ― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After
- “Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.” ― Shannon Alder
- “Time is the art of nature.” ― Khalid Masood
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams
- “We’re not really conscious of what we’re doing most of the time.” ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby