Time Quotes

"While we wait for life, life passes."

"Everybody hurries through life as if they're trying to get somewhere else."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Time is a river of passing events."

"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."

"Time is the stage upon which all human endeavor plays out its drama."

"Time wasted cannot be recovered; therefore, use each moment as if it were your last."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Time is the measure of movement between opposites."

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"The time of life that passes never returns."

"We grow old only in the things we neglect."

"Where are you hurrying? Into the grave. Is there no rest for you on the journey?"

"Every moment is an opportunity to practice virtue or to abandon it."

"The day may be long, but the year is short."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"The life of man is but a span."

"The past is gone; the future is uncertain; the present is here."

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Time is a river of passing events."

"Our task is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to see what lies clearly in the present."

"Your time has a limit. Use it, or lose it."

"Time is the greatest healer."

"The glory of the world passes away."

"In difficult times carry something precious with you—memories."