Time Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

110 Time Quotes
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
Leonard Bernstein Quotes
“Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes
“Better late than never, but never late is better”
Andy Warhol Quotes
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers”
Seneca Quotes
“Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying, Swift as wind flies over us Time devouring, slaying. [Lat., Lauriger Horatius Quam dixisti verum; Fugit curo citius Tempus edax rerum.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: translated by John Addington Symonds
“Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Collectio Salernitans (vol. II, l. 130, ed. De Renzi)
“Six years--six little years--six drops of time.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes
Source: Mycerinus (st. 11)
“By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes
Source: Confessions (bk. VIII, 5, 12)
“Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears, Toil without recompense--tears all in vain, Take them and give me my childhood again. I have grown weary of dust and decay, Weary of sowing for others to reap; Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.”
A.M.W. Ball Quotes
Source: Rock me to Sleep, Mother, also attributed to Elizabeth Akers Allen, see "Northern Monthly", vol. II,
“Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight. Mother, come back from the echoeless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore.”
A.M.W. Ball Quotes
Source: Rock me to Sleep, Mother
“The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.”
A.M.W. Ball Quotes
Source: Rock me to Sleep, Mother
“Why slander we the times? What crimes Have days and years, that we Thus charge them with iniquity? If we would rightly scan, It's not the times are bad, but man.”
Dr. Joseph Beaumont Quotes
Source: Original Poems
“Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.”
Henri Louis Bergson Quotes
Source: Creative Evolution (ch. I)
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. III, v. 1-8)
“Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 10)
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.)”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Corinthians (ch. VI, v. 2)
“My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Job (ch. VII, v. 6)
“He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 2-3)
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 4)
“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 9)
“For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Wisdom of Solomon (ch. II, v. 5)
“Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi: Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: Epitres (III, 47)
“What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?”
Rev. James Bramston Quotes
Source: Art of Politicks