Quotes and Sayings about Time

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain

But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Michael Ende in Momo - und die grauen Herren

Daily Routine

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life

Friendship

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Michael Ende in Momo

Moments

No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

Iron Man in The Avengers - Endgame

Money

[Minuet of Forest]
The flow of time is always cruel. Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it. A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days.

Sheik in The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time

Memories

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Life Boredom

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

Happiness

Brom: "The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we want them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories. That which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented, yet treasure it, for without you it does not exist. I give you now a memory that has been forgotten, hidden in the dreamy haze that lies behind us."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Memories Forgetting

I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek

Life Moments

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson - Distrust That Particular Flavor

Memories

Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted.

John Lennon

Recovery & Leisure

[Serenade of Water]
Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.

Sheik in The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de la Fontaine

Grief & Condolence Sad Quotes

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Time is like a river, you cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life!

Enjoying Moments

There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

Love Work

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Francis Bacon

Books

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Change Motivation

Time is a face on the water

Stephen King in The Dark Tower - Glas

Most people think time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am and why I say this. Sit down and I will tell you a tale, like none of you have ever heard.

Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time

Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Darlin', "forever" is a long, long time and time has a way of changin' things.

Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound

Change

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Robert Orben

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

Money

Time is long but life is short.

Stevie Wonder

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

We cannot control the time factor. Therefore, use your available time consciously and full of meat.

Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer.
When you looking down the barrel of a gun time slows down, your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars.

Max Payne

Death

There's thieves that are never sanctioned although they steal the most precious thing one has: time.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Paul Claudel

Love

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings - The Girl in the Golden Atom

Here's the thing about time: If you can't make the most out of any given moment, you don't deserve a single extra second.

Ekko, the Boy Who Shattered Time in League of Legends

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

Garry Kasparov

Wise Sayings

Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of.

Gone with the Wind

Life

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

Shaun Alexander

Scars

Time will heal everything.

Sabrina Carpenter

Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Euripides

Love

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Life

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz - Season 5 Episode 25

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

Work

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Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

Moments

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

Change

Only when you're stupid, can life be boring.

Horst Wolfram Geißler

Foolishness Boredom

Eternity is instantaneous, and an instant is eternal.

Archer in Fate/stay night

Eternity

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Waiting

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