- “The Minotaur comes and goes. He has for centuries. And there have been many bridges.The Minotaur pauses, as he walks, midway through the covered bridge that serves, in more ways than one, as the entrance to Old Scald Village. He rests his heavy snout against one of the wooden trusses. The Minotaur likes this portal, both ingress and egress, a breach in the terribly human construct of time.” ― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
- “Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.” ― Lynsay Sands, Love Bites
- “Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at once. But since my resolution was explicit, since within twenty-four hours, in the empty frame of the following day where everything was so well-arranged because I myself was not yet in it, my good intention would be realized without difficulty, it was better not to start on an evening when I felt ill-prepared. The following days were not, alas, to prove more propitious. But I was reasonable. It would have been puerile, on the part of one who had waited now for years, not to put up with a postponement of two or three days. Confident that by the day after tomorrow I should have written several pages, I said not a word more to my parents of my decision; I preferred to remain patient and then to bring to a convinced and comforted grandmother a sample of work that was already under way. Unfortunately the next day was not that vast, extraneous expanse of time to which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close, my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome certain internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer. And at the end of several days, my plans not having matured, I had no longer the same hope that they would be realized at once, and hence no longer the heart to subordinate everything else to their realization: I began once again to keep late hours…” ― Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, Part 2
- “Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who’s with who and did you hear.” ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
- Time is an illusion. Albert Einstein
- “Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.” ― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
- “Let every lust be mortified, every duty performed, every grace exercised.” ― John Fox, Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End
- “He had occasion to notice that the enactment and completion of a well-conceived idea is often subject to so many obstacles and so many coincidences that it often threatens to disappear entirely. Just as it seems to vanish for good, in the middle of so much confusion, success seems possible once more, when time, the best ally of an indefatigable perseverance, offers her helping hand.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Man of Fifty
- “But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.” ― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
- “Time itself is the unified force of nature.” ― Khalid Masood
- “Time passes by and so does life, but God remains God. He is great all the time.” ― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes About God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
- Who knows where the time goes? Nina Simone
- “Whatever the claims of memes to be regarded as replicators in the same sense as genes, the first part of this chapter established that individual organisms are not replicators.” ― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
- “And time isn’t constant. At least our human perception of time. Einstein theorized that the faster we move, the slower we perceive time to move. The clocks will still tick away at the same rate regardless – but it’s all about the perception of the observer. I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
- “I hope they love you like they say they do” ― Jordan Hoechlin
- “Humans were not meant to be whisked to and fro like this; my grasp of time and space was simple, linear, uncomplicated.” ― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong
- “William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!” That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, Loss, Loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- “Let time be a motivator to start living your dreams now.” ― Avina Celeste
- “A job is needed for sustenance, serving in one form or the other,And then we make that part as our life.Being successful in your profession is appreciable but at the end of the day if you miss being with your loved ones, if you miss your baby hugging you, You missed life for that day, not a part of it.Time your time judicially.” ― Mahendar Singh Jakhar
- “Time is the eternal state of matter.” ― Khalid Masood
- “If you waste your talent within, It’s a sin, it’s a sin, it’s a sin!” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
- “She stared at me, like day stares at an hourglass and night, the sand trickling through time; the sea disappearing to eyes in the dark. But I hear her waves coming in, as she whispers one last chance goodbye.” ― Anthony Liccione
- “Things will change in the course of time.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Maybe you will be able to rebuild everything you have lost. But time, my friend, is always ticking. And remember, no matter what you do, you will never be able to win it back again.” ― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon – The Artist’s Guide to Liberation From Procrastination
- “Truth in the heart of heresy” ― The Doctor
- “Time is valuable. For all the time we’ve lost by not being together, it has made you the most valuable thing to me.” ― Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts
- “The truth is somewhere in the middle of each thing which you read… in it’s in the middle… to find it… you need time… but time in it’s the essence, right now!” ― Deyth Banger
- “Delays and laziness are the two great gulfs in which multitudes of souls are drowned and perish.” ― John Fox, Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End
- “You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.” ― Robert Duncan
- “[When] he’s here, he’s always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he’s crazy…Don’t tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.” ― Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale