Quotes About Time

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

Time is the herald of truth.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.