If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion—the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes.
—Virginia Woolf
The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling?
—Margaret Gatty
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
—Torquato Tasso
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
—Herbert Henry Asquith
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.
—Charan Singh
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must make it.
—Charles Buxton
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
—Richard Adams in Watership Down
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
—Sydney J. Harris
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.
—Ann Aguirre in Wanderlust
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
—Henry Miller
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.
—Katherine Paterson
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
—Leo Tolstoy
Time heals. It's slow and it's painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She'll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it's meant to be then it'll be again, and if it's not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn't even thought of her once. And then you'll be free.
—Endless Love (2014)
I just can't convince myself that everything is okay again. Rationally, nothing has really happened to me. My days are spent as they always have been, but when I am lying alone at night in my big bed, I'm lying on a bed of pins. I can't sleep anymore.
—Rebecca Bloom in Girl Anatomy
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
—Henry A. Kissinger