Time Quotes

"Age is not how many years you have lived; it is how many years you have left to live."

"He was still too young to know that the past is full of such reversals."

"Memory is a mirror looking forward."

"It was as though time had bent in ways that confused the natural order."

"They confused the signs of age with the onset of winter."

"I have stolen a lot of things in my lifetime, but I could not steal time."

"In the end we are the same people we were a thousand years ago."

"The living are deceived by the illusion of time."

"Time had stolen his face but not his soul."

"I think we're running out of time."

"Time is a gift that mortals understand better than gods."

"He was still in his pajamas and in his bare feet, but he had the air of someone more awake than the most awake men in the world."

"Time advances in its own fashion, indifferent to the desires of men."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"I wish it need not have happened in my time."

"The only thing you really have to decide is what to do with the time that is given you."

"One afternoon, realizing that he was old, Aureliano Segundo began to weep"

"We're always coming back to the same thing, aren't we?"

"It had never occurred to him that memory, too, could wither away"

"The moth-eaten manuscripts began to turn to dust"

"Colonel Aureliano Buendía forgot the Spanish language of his childhood"

"The plague of insomnia was spreading throughout the town"

"He had spent so much time looking at the future that he forgot to look at the past"

"He possessed a supernatural ability to forget the past"

"The pendulum of the clock seemed to measure not time but eternity"

"Time moves differently when you understand its value"

"Time is the only thing we truly spend"

"She had discovered that it was impossible to return to the past."

"The past is packed with ought-to-bes; the future with mere maybes."

"It was as though the whole town had become infected with insomnia."