Time Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

View Author

Youth is folly; maturity, a struggle; old age, regret.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

View Author

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One might think that misfortune will eventually tire of striking, but then it is time that becomes our misfortune.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

View Author

Clocks kill time. Time is dead as long as it is being marked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

View Author

Because you believe that time heals and walls cover up, and it's not true, it's not true.

Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier

View Author

Every hour wounds, the last one finishes us.

Jean Giono

Jean Giono

View Author

We have forgotten that our only goal is to live and that we live it every day, and that in every hour of the day we reach our true goal if we live... The days are fruits and our role is to eat them.

Horace

Horace

View Author

Time brings to light everything that is hidden and conceals and hides what now shines with the greatest splendor.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

View Author

As short as life is, we make it even shorter through the foolish waste of time.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

View Author

No matter how slowly the hours may seem to pass, they will seem short if you think that they will never return.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

View Author

Time is like a river that swiftly carries away everything that is born.

Ana María Matute

Ana María Matute

View Author

Time heals everything, but it also burns everything. The good and the bad. It takes away from memory things you wish to keep there. Time takes it away.

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

View Author

Neither absence nor time mean anything when one is in love.