- “Your start time is based on the things that hold you back.” ― Alan Maiccon
- “The past was once the present and the future will once be the present.” ― Shubham Sanap
- To save time, stop looking for shortcuts. Shane Parrish (See also: 10 Ways To Save Time Every Day, paleohacks.com)
- “You must always be proactive” ― Sunday Adelaja
- “The promises of God shall be fulfilled in the perfect time.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “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
- “Time’s passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days.” ― Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
- “Time is the diary of God.” ― Khalid Masood
- “Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.” ― Gerald M. Givens
- “Many people really want to develop themselves, but not too many are alacritous to work at it.” ― Previledge Tafadzwa Makaza
- “Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.’Odd name, Tom Skatt – eh?”Thats right”You don’t think we could be related?’Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.’I don’t think so”No,’ grinned Sir Henry “no, of course not” ― Henry Chancellor, The Museum’s Secret
- “Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)” ― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave
- “Time is the diary of the universe.” ― Khalid Masood
- “Time is not only the best teacher, but it is also a great and remarkable healer that costs nothing, and even that does not need any place for the practice. It is within you.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
- “Everything pursues its own ends and skies stay warm + beneficent – though winter time always leaves many vagrant nostalgias and a sense of more supply than demand of Time and of the portentousness of the weather.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- “Time is a constant friend, let me treat it well.” ― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity
- “You have the power to sit in the present moment like the king/queen of the universe and watch the magical show being performed for you by everything and everyone, including the body-mind that you call yours.” ― Shunya
- “David Foster Wallace: Because I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.” ― David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
- “Maybe she knew. Maybe she knew there wasn’t time to waste, that she couldn’t go through the motions, steps, build. That the linear trajectory would bring her only to the middle.” ― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years
- “We cannot afford to waste our time on earth, let us with one accord do the useful work.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” ― William Shakespeare, The Sonnets and Narrative Poems
- “They are pleased to deceive themselves, as if they deceived Fate at the same time.” ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
- “I thought again about the miracle of time, its manifest cruelty and sublime mercy.” ― Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir
- “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
- “Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity–a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.” ― Thomas Moore, The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
- “Time isn’t fixed. Time depends on where you’re watching from.” ― Bill Flanagan, Fifty in Reverse
- “In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn’t it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.” ― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
- “How could the dimensionality of time change with scale? There is only one way, as a fractal.” ― R.A. Delmonico
- “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea
- “Not only are the depressed in a different place but their relationship to time is also warped. Depression recognizes only one time slot-the past-and only one manner of speech: “If only.” People who are depressed have very little contact with the present moment. They live persistently in their memories, resurrecting all that has come and gone. Like a hamster on a wheel or a snake that has swallowed its tail, they are stuck in a roundabout of gloom” ― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within