Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

D
"You're wasting your time."
Doc Daneeka
J
"The past cannot be repeated. The future can only be created."
Jay Gatsby
N
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
P
"Every moment of life is precious and can never be returned."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
J
"Someday, we'll look back on this and it'll all seem funny."
Jem Finch
W
"How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible."
Winston Smith
W
"The world will not change. Nothing ever changes."
Winston Smith
P
"Time heals nothing; it only reveals."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Y
"I saw him before."
Yossarian
Y
"The only thing that really matters is the moment."
Yossarian
M
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Milo Minderbinder
M
"The future is now."
Milo Minderbinder
A
"The time you waste looking at monuments while you're on Earth is time lost."
Atticus Finch
O
"The past is dead. The past no longer exists"
O'Brien
S
"There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with."
Scout Finch
S
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."
Scout Finch
C
"You're wasting your time."
Colonel Cathcart
T
"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string"
Tralfamadorian
T
"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains"
Tralfamadorian
P
"We live in the present moment, but we are always remembering the past and imagining the future."
Pierre Bezukhov
N
"Time heals what reason cannot."
Natasha Rostova
R
"Life's too short for that kind of waiting."
Randle McMurphy
S
"In the old days, you had to live for the future. But we have abolished the future."
Syme
P
"Time heals not because it erases but because it changes perspective"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
C
"I've been here longer than I can remember."
Chief Bromden
Y
"The only thing to do now was what we had been doing all along—waiting."
Yossarian
B
"I would hate to tell you what year this is."
Billy Pilgrim
J
"Do you understand that you will never see me again after this night?"
Julia
T
"The moment is structured that way."
Tralfamadorian
B
"Where are we, now?"
Billy Pilgrim