Time
Quotes
The Moving Finger writes
“The
Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves
on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall
lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor
all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
―
Omar Khayyám
“It's
worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what
makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used
to, and do it with all your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“I
have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in
the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts
“There
will be time, there will be time
To
prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
―
T.S. Eliot.
“It
starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About
love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called
romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of
them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick
and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and
something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your
life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester.
Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad
boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of
every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and
look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and
self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What
was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good
and comes to the rescue.”
―
Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“Never
waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
―
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Rest
is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's
day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across
the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
―
John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
“There
is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for
love. That leaves no other time.”
―
Coco Chanel
“The
time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light
things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to
the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And
so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There
will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know
things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages
still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
―
Seneca, Natural Questions
“Time
is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number
of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists
can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day.
Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've
wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
―
Denis Waitley
“Only
time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and
legs.”
―
Miss Piggy
“Eventually,
all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by
the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some
of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of
the words are theirs.
I am
haunted by waters.”
―
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“The
future starts today, not tomorrow.”
―
Pope John Paul II
“It
is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we
receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we
have wastefully.”
―
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How
to Use It
“We
are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which
the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline
between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with
memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be
any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch
with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured
with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful
tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts
“Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
―
Hans Christian Andersen
“Clocks
slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;
only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
―
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“It
is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper
meaning.”
―
Vincent Van Gogh
“I
give you this to take with you:
Nothing
remains as it was. If you know this, you can
begin
again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”
―
Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters
“Fantasy,
if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it
represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
―
Walt Disney
