Time
Quotes
The Past
is a Ghost
“Time
moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
―
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“The
past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”
―
Bill Cosby
“August
rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd
uneven time.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“But
if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be
ready to greet you.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Time
is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
―
Benjamin Disraeli
“I
want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk
into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Time
that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the
grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until
the earth covers us and we are gone.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“I
confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in
such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors
trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at
random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is
ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It
is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of
oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the
contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.”
―
Vladimir Nabokov
“Do
not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work
whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as
you go along.”
―
Napoleon Hill
“This
life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health,
but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what
we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but
it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam
in glory, but all is being purified.”
―
Martin Luther
“Eternity
is in love with the productions of time.”
―
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“I'd
like to get away from earth awhile
And
then come back to it and begin over.
May
no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And
half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not
to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I
don't know where it's likely to go better.”
―
Robert Frost, Birches
“For
the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“The
best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are
never rushed.”
―
Michael Phillips
“Time
is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need
to have the time of your life. ”
―
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“An
infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small
space.”
―
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Time
is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he
never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere
child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”
―
Lynsay Sands, Love Bites
“When
you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
―
Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
“Time
and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch,
but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
―
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“The
writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows
lonely or bored.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
