It’s hard to understand until you experience that time seems to fly. Famous time passes quotes will help you understand how this phenomenon works, so you can enjoy every moments, feel more in control of your life, get the things done that matter and make it more meaningful and full.
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Time Passes Quotes
- Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. – Marcel Proust
- You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it’s time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. – José Saramago
- As time passes, we like to simplify our lives. – Hubert de Givenchy
- It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it, and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. – George Harrison
- No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. – Haruki Murakami
- Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity. – Jim Rohn
- There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it. – Marc Bolan
- Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. – Earl Nightingale
- Time goes, you say, Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. – Henry Austin Dobson
- Seize the day, then let it go. – Marty Rubin
- Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. – Khalil Gibran
- As time passes, the actual complexity of our history – even of our own personal experience – gets buried under the weight of the ideal image. – Stephanie Coontz
- Time passes by so quickly. Change happens all around us every day whether we like it or not. Enjoy the moment while you can. One day it will just be another memory.
- Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. – Haruki Murakami
- When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can’t stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
- Time does not pass, it continues. – Marty Rubin
- Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. – John Archibald Wheeler
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius
- Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann
- Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. – Cecelia Ahern
- We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist. – James Gleick
- People who kill time are themselves not alive. – Amit Abraham
- Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one. – Alexander Wang
- The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. – Sophocles
- The proper, wise balancing of one’s whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. – Arnold Bennett
- One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. – John Green
- In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. – Warren Spector
- Indifferent to the affairs of men, time runs out, precise, heedless, exact, and immutable in rhythm. – Erwin Sylvanus
- It’s lost time that matters – the time between time – the moments when you forget time and life just happens. – Chloe Thurlow
- Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale
- There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it. – Douglas Coupland
- I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky. – R. S. Thomas
- Nothing ever stayed the same. There was no force in this world strong enough to withstand the march of time. – Sam J. Charlton
- Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. – Jim Rohn
- You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much. – Greta Gerwig
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Louis Berlioz
- You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you. – Herb Gardner
- Half our time is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. – Will Rogers
- Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, for that shall give me the real reason never ever to look back and see what I have done but to look ahead and see the marvelous things I shall be able to do and the distinctive footprints I shall be able live and leave with the very seconds that shall be ahead of me! Life must never be over until all is over! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboa
- Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
- The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Althsuler
- Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story. – Kilroy J. Oldster
- Time flies never to be recalled. – Virgil
- The trouble is you think you have time. – Buddha
- Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life. – Dean Cavanagh
- You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
- Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. – Charles Caleb Colton
- You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away – al-Hasan al-Basri
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. – Steve Jobs
- How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes. – Felix Salten
- The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. – Audrey Hepburn
- Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. – Robert Frost
- Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward. – Joel Osteen
- Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? – Ralph Hodgson
- Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour. – Martel, Yann
- I don’t want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. – Tori Amos
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul
- Though we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That’s it. – A.J. Compton
- Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance. – Benjamin Franklin
- Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Junior
- Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time. – Malti Bhojwani
- Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. – Ovid
- Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? – Paracelsus
- Sure, everything is ending,” Jules said, “but not yet. – Jennifer Egan
- Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. – Jorge Luis Borges
- With enough time, you can get used to almost anything. – Katherine Applegate
- The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore
- As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. – Horace
- If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee
- Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly. – Ivan Turgenev
- Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. – Cesare Pavese
- Time brings all things to pass. – Aeschylus
- Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. – Harvey McKay
- Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
- Methinks I see the wanton hours flee, And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me. – George Villiers
- Time. Like a petal in the wind, Flows softly by. As old lives are taken, New ones begin. A continual chain, Which lasts throughout eternity. Every life but a minute in time, But each of equal importance. – Cindy Cheney
- Better late than never, but never late is better.
