Time Quotes

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I've seen the future, and it's much like the present -- only longer.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Forever is composed of nows.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

Like as the waves make towards
the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.