Time
Quotes
Time
isn’t Precious
“Time
can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“The
future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an
hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Time
isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious
is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious
indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the
Now, the most precious thing there is.”
―
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“There
should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all
right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no
longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your
name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her
desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait
as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay
to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
―
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“The
future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter,
Witch
“And
therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle;
it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is
the longing for repetition.”
―
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Until
you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you
will not do anything with it.”
― M.
Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional
Values and Spiritual Growth
“Time
is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
―
Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
“The
cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Life
is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything
we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste
time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”
―
Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
“It
is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition
alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with
each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
―
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“The
three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must
be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the
nature of causality.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“…the
sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer
than I loved you when I knew you.
Some
people might find that strange.
But
the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact
they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you
have known them.”
―
Ranata Suzuki
“Don’t
worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of
intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and
become who they’re destined to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Lost
Time is never found again.”
―
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
“She
wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that
she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“There
is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Time
spent with a cat is never wasted.”
―
Colette
“Odysseus
inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory
after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is
abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who
will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps
one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
