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Quotes About Time

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
~ Ovid
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
~ Ovid
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
~ Ovid
Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.
~ Owen Feltham
I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.
~ Oz Perkins
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
~ Ozwald Boateng
With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
~ R. C. Sproul
If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
~ R. C. Sproul
The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.
~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time.
~ R.L. LaFevers
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
~ Rachel Kushner
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
~ Radha Mitchell
minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.
~ Rae Foley
It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
~ Rafael Nadal
Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.
~ Rainbow Rowell
I wonder…," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?
~ Rainbow Rowell
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.
~ Rajneesh
I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.
~ Ralph Eugene Meatyard
If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.
~ Ralph Goodale
For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson