Quotes about time

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“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”

“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.”

“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”

“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”

“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.”

“I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.”

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time…”

“Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.”

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

“The best of times is now.”

“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.”

“My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.”

“I'd have to kill Dimitri for real this time and lose any chance I might have to bring back my prince. Damn. It's a good thing I work well under pressure.”

“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

“If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

“First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.”

“When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”

“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”

“But… as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.”

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”

“There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.”

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?”

“He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”

“The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?”

“When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.”

“A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.”

“This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling”

“The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch."

- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)”

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.”

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

“Wander a whole summer if you can… time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time…”

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore”

“When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.”

“For every wound, the ointment of time.”

“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”

“And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.”

“No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.”

“And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible… but interesting….”

“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.”

“I have no time for babbling foolishness.”

“Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.”

“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”

“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”

“When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.”

“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”

“… in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking…”

“Calvin: Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in…But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
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“There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.”

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”

“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”

“I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)”

“For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.”

“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”

“In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.”

“The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.”

“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.”

“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”

“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

“What am I supposed to do,
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that,
And there's no turning back.
I need time to move on,
I need love to feel strong.
Cause I've got time to think it through,
And maybe I'm too good for you!”

“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”

“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.”

“And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.”

“I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.”

“Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.”

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”

“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”

“One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”

“Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.”

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”

“They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.”

“Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies.”

“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”

“You will have a story in there… or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”

“You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”