Quotations about

Time

I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them.

—Mia Sheridan in Kyland

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

—Rabindranath Tagore

It is better to learn late than never.

—Publilius Syrus

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

—Charles Wadsworth

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

—Charles M. Schulz

The days are long, but the years are short.

—Gretchen Rubin

My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone—so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

—H.M. Ward in The Wedding Contract

Time would not change what I was feeling—or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

—Abraham Lincoln

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

—Baltasar Gracián

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

—Bonnie Friedman

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

—Carl Sandburg

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

—Chuck Sigars

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

—Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey