Time Quotes

"One cannot step twice into the same river, nor can one grasp the fleeting present."

"The present age is an age of speed and superficiality."

"Time is not an absolute container but a series of mental events and perceptions."

"Time's passage is measured by the succession of our thoughts and perceptions."

"Time, the great physician of human sorrows."

"What is past is preserved in what is present."

"The present is always the enemy of the future."

"Each age has its own character and its own contradictions."

"The particular moment contains the whole of history."

"Time is not a thing, but the form in which we experience reality."

"One's relationship with time reveals much about one's moral maturity."

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you."

"It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

"Time is the succession of ideas in constant flux."

"He that would live well to two ages must begin betimes."

"Our advancing years do naturally accustom our bodies to decreasing nutrition."

"Experience, like a lamp upon the stern, only shines on the waves behind us."

"The present is pregnant with the future."

"Time is the order of succession."

"Time is the measure of existence in relation to motion and rest."

"The past is gone, the future is uncertain, only the present is real."

"Time is the most precious commodity of all."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

"Life is neither long nor short, but only so in relation to our desires."

"Time itself is a mode of thought."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

"Time is the measurement of change."