Quotes about time
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“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,
keeping her voice low.
“The last time we were in this building, we accused the
Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think
we’ll be waiting long.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Thinking, Waiting

“We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love, Summer

“If you don't want to have sex, I don't want to talk about our feelings."
He scrubbed his hand through his hair, looking confused. "Well, that's for damn sure the first time a woman's ever said that to me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Sex, Feeling

“We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Life, Thinking

“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

War, Heart

“I prefer to spend time with you. You’re the most interesting person I know.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Personality

“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way

Source: The Artist's Way

Pain, Learning, Past, Future

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, Life, Spring

“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Saga, Vol. 3

Childhood

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

People

“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Life, Sense

“We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”

Richard K. Morgan book Woken Furies

Source: Woken Furies

Dreams, Hurt

“I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

Understanding

“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Variant: Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Source: Aleph

Life

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions

"A New Refutation of Time" (1946) [" Nueva refutación del tiempo http://www.monografias.com/trabajos11/filoylit/filoylit.shtml"] Variant translations: And yet, and yet... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are obvious acts of desperation and secret consolation. Our fate (unlike the hell of Swedenborg or the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and ironclad. Time is the thing I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges. Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Other Inquisitions (1952) Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings Context: Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges. Context: And yet, and yet... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

“See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

Love, Way, Nature, Anger

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Variant: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 10

Love

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

Memory

“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician

“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

Joan Didion book Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Sex, Girl

“But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.

Wash the car, maybe.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books, Cars, Business

“Time goes from present to past.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Past

“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Truth, History, Parting

“‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"

"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."

"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: The Complete Fairy Tales

World, Beauty, Thinking, Flying

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings

Smile, Perfection

“Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.”

Ned Vizzini (1981–2013) American writer

Source: The Other Normals

Books

“Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Age

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams, Nature, Thinking

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

People, Music, Imagination, Reality

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Love, Fools, Heart

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

Reality

“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: 2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
Context: Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Stupidity, Silence

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Death, Fight, Flying

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Pain, People, Fear

“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Life, Sadness, Loss

“After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.”

Eleanor Estes book The Hundred Dresses

Source: The Hundred Dresses

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

Barbara Sher (1935) American writer

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

Thinking

“Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Love will find a way against time itself.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Catching Caroline

Love, Way

“In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

God

“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.”

Val McDermid (1955) Scottish crime writer

God

“Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Hate, Water

“Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and defies the law of gravity at the same time is really good.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Existencilism (2002)
Source: Wall and Piece

Law, Painting

“She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Feeling, Imagination

“Nobody loses all the time.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”

Po Bronson (1964) American writer

Source: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

Imagination, Passion

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

Stupidity, Past, Help

“Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything
related to his feelings for you”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

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

Guy, Feeling, Heart

“The god of dirt
came up to me many times and said
so many wise and delectable things,
I lay
on the grass listening
to his dog voice,
frog voice; now,
he said, and now,
and never once mentioned forever

from, One or Two Things”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dream Work

God, Dogs, Grass

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”

Lisa See book Dreams of Joy

Source: Dreams of Joy

“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Life, Death, Revenge

“Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

The Shortcut: 20 Stories To Get You From Here To There (2006) by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179

Water

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist

Faith, Thinking

“What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Letters and Social Aims, Social Aims
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Life

“Oh, China. How I have missed you.'
'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“… the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”

Anna Deavere Smith (1950) American actress, playwright and professor

“I read poetry to save time.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Reading

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it…”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

World

“Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Death

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Hurt

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope, Dead

“What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

God

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)

God, Children, Justice, Democracy

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Nature of Jade

Disappointment, Feeling, Sense, Loss

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

World, Fear, Hope, Hurt

“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a
happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a
moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is
a source of profound satisfaction.”

Primo Levi book The Periodic Table

Source: The Periodic Table

Mood, Happiness

“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Feeling

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People, History, Success

“At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

People, Way, Reading

“I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”

Le Corbusier (1887–1965) architect, designer, urbanist, and writer

When the Cathedrals Were White http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwVAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;A+hundred+times+I+have+thought+New+York+is+a+catastrophe+and+fifty+times+it+is+a+beautiful+catastrophe&quot;#search_anchor (1947) Attributed from posthumous publications

Beauty

“… every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer

Source: Last Light

Life, God, Decision

“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Thinking