Quotes About Time

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

The truth is in the present moment.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.