Time Passing Quotes

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  • Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

    Funny   Time   Happenings  
  • You may delay, but time will not.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

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  • Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

    Time   Memories   Heart  
  • If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

  • We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

  • Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  • Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

    Time   Past   Gone  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264
  • I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

  • In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  • I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

    Men   Thinking   Being Me  
    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.
  • Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

    Life   Time   Regret  
    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
  • I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

    Past   Ribbons   Handbags  
    Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber
  • We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

    Time   Memories   Sadness  
  • Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

  • Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  • Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

    Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
  • Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

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

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

    Spiritual   Time   Real  
  • Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

    Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black
  • We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

    Needs   Done   Bills  
  • You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

    "Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.
  • Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016
  • There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

    Time   People   Able  
  • Lost time is never found again.

    Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80
  • Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

    Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black
  • Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  • The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  • But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

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