Quotes about time
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"In the Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Francis pushes for peace in Ukraine" in NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/04/10/1091929949/palm-sunday-pope-francis-ukraine (10 April 2022) <br class="br">2020s, 2022

War, Christ, World

“The world has already seen many war crimes. At different times. On different continents. But it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of such evil on earth.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

2022, Make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of this evil on earth (3 April 2022)

War, World, Evil

“How to Visit for the First Time the Street You Always Lived on?”

Joshua Leavitt

“How would you describe your transition from teenager to adult? The truth is that I barely notice it, I spend all my time between studies and filming, I live between Madrid and Barcelona, I barely have time to think about it, I think I lived more as an adult than as a teenager, but very happy.”

Berta Castañé (2002) Spanish actress and model

¿Cómo describirías tu paso de adolescente a adulta? La verdad es que apenas me estoy dando cuenta, paso todo el tiempo entre los estudios y los rodajes, viviendo entre Madrid y Barcelona, casi no tengo tiempo de pensar en ello, creo que llevo más vida de adulta que de adolescente, pero muy feliz. <br class="br">From the interview Hablamos con Berta Castañé, la estrella en ascenso de la pequeña pantalla https://www.marie-claire.es/moda/modelos/fotos/entrevista-a-berta-castane-241588061091, marie-claire.es, 28 July 2020.

Study, Happiness, Truth, Thinking

““We don’t develop and acquire courage by taking the smoothest path each time. We develop it by facing misfortune and perilous conditions.””

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1989

Courage

“If our youths can try to dedicate more time for fruitful things, it will block spirit of goallessness. Wasting time replying and reposting useless things help kill potentials. It is better to sleep than to stay awake to use your consciousness to kill your potential.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

Youth, Help, Sleep

““Every time I communicate with young people, you charge me with your energy, fill my heart with joy. I know very well that each of you is eager to serve our dear Motherland and people. I value you immensely as the greatest wealth, priceless treasure of Uzbekistan.””

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957) President of Uzbekistan (2016-present)

From the greeting speech of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the Youth Forum of Uzbekistan.
Source: https://mirziyo.uz/en/yoshlar-ozbekistonning-eng-katta-boyligi-bebaho-xazinasi/

Wealth, People, Communication, Heart

“Nothing is constant.
Balanced and changeable by situation, and time.”

Md Mim Akhtar

“The genetic expression within any given cell at any given time is not “fixed,” as many people think it is. It is not a static thing. Rather, it is continually adapting to both external and internal stimuli – meaning that it adjusts to the environment and to any changes in the surroundings, as well as to any changes within the body itself.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

People, Change, Thinking

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Context: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

“Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Context: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? A man may do both, said Aragorn. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

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“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“With time, one learns that one’s work is never finished.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

Learning

“You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.”

Elizabeth Bear (1971) American novelist

Source: New Amsterdam

“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

People, Thinking

“Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Variant: She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Life, People, Way, Singing

“The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

World, Feeling

“I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

People

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love, Life, Death, World

“Time will explain.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Red Headed League

“Well, we'll know better next time.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

Love, Life

“Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Life

“I can't be under arrest now… I don't have time.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Life, Question, Change

“One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid… One wants… But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

Life, Perfection

“We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine… forever.
-Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Way

“I guess that’s all forever is… Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”

Nicholas Evans book The Horse Whisperer

Source: The Horse Whisperer

“You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Life

“I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.”

Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

Feeling

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Girl

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Education, Sense

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

World

“I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.”

Diane Setterfield (1964) English novelist

People, Understanding, Reading

“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Problem, Water

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Love, Life

“I kind of lost track of time…"
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Variant: Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
Source: The Well of Ascension

Books

“Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

People, Dependency

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 142

Life, Truth, Search

“Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.”

Margaret Edson Wit

Source: Wit

“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Variant: I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Truth, Lie, World, Way

“In the Land of Memory the time is always.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick… but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

Memory

“… an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Books

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Life, Learning, Fight, Happiness

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Men, World

“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

Books, Reading

“And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon… at lease some of the time”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

Star

“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

People, Past

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People

“We're still on the run. That's for sure.
Right on. This time we're on.
And we won't stop till we win.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

“For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Pain, Feeling

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Learning

“Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Life, People

“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Past, Future

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Men, Evil, Fight

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Fear

“Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
And accrue what I hear into myself… and let sound contribute toward me.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Thinking

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Hope

“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Thinking

“We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: Intrigues

World

“Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Hope, Disappointment, Night

“You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

“So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: One Silent Night

Death

“‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Personality

“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

Art, Business

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Learning, Future

“When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That’s why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Heart, Personality

“And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, “Bathroom door beside you,” and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Support

“I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

Dreams, Boy

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Life is only lived full-time by women with children.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

Life, Women, Children

“Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.”

Alice Sebold (1963) American writer

Death, Fools, Fight

“Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek)
I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid)
Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Parent, Waiting

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

People, Secret, Nature

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

Dreams, Thinking, Dead

“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”

Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet

Affliction

“By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but
truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Truth, Fear, Rage, Past

“Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!”

James Clavell book King Rat

Source: King Rat

Decision

“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

“I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.”

Carolyn Keene book Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Forgetting

“Is he making you happy? I don’t mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, “but the good still outweighs the bad.” Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him?”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Happiness

“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”

Thomas Wolfe book Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

Death, Home

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Spring

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