Time Quotes

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"We cannot go back to yesterday. We cannot alter the past, but we can shape the future."

"The present moment, then, is the link between all moments, the eternal now."

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy—to be a man who is always busy."

"Time is money; but money is not time."

"Time reveals that human progress is neither random nor merely political, but lawful."

"Each generation inherits debts both material and intellectual that it must repay through progress."

"The only real link between present and future is memory."

"Time is not a prison, but a canvas upon which we paint our lives."

"One cannot step twice into the same river, but we are not even the same person twice."

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

"Do you know why we must always be drunk, perpetually? So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that weighs on our shoulders."

"It is quite true what philosophy says: that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other phrase: that it must be lived forwards."

"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, especially the one you'll never have."

"Time is humanity's greatest resource, yet it is most wasted."

"Time is not a thing in itself but an a priori condition of human experience."

"Time is the realm where contradiction, as the negative, is real."

"What has been is no more; what shall be is not yet."

"Forgetting is the death of the particular."

"Time is the measure of change, yet time itself changes nothing"

"Time is the most valuable commodity, for once spent, it can never be recovered."

"Time is the greatest teacher, if we are patient enough to learn."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Time is a mystery, and we are always discovering it anew."

"In the morning we carry the world like Atlas; at midday we throw it off; in the evening we stumble over it."

"Time is a necessary representation that underlies all intuitions."

"Time is not something which exists of itself or which inheres in things as an objective determination."

"Mortality teaches us the value of time."

"Time is where we educate our children."

"The present is the point of contact between the past and the future."