Quotes About Time

Time flies with you

You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don't think about getting it back, you've given it in love.

You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way.

But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back?

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as too late in life.

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.

Dor shook his head. "The phrase. What does it mean?" Sarah wondered if he was kidding. "Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye and it's like no time passed at all?" His eyes drifted. He liked it. "Time flies." "With you," she added.

She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.

Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

What will you do with the time you have left?

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.

Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon.

We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.

A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

tapes, like photographs and videos, are [nothing more than] a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley? Yeah, I mumbled. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.