"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
— Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol :)

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
— C.S. Lewis

"You may delay, but time will not."
— Benjamin Franklin

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"79

Time is a game
played beautifully
by children.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all...till you're so full of fear you can't function at all. A working class hero is something to be."
— John Lennon

"Time is the longest distance between two places"
— Tennessee Williams

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything."
— Dave Barry

"I sit beside the fire and think
I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer

"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."
— T.S. Eliot

"the future is uncertain but the end is always near "
— Jim Morrison

"I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."
— Moses Hadas

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

"L'éternité, c'est long... surtout vers la fin."
— Franz Kafka

"I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day and another year. And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting qite like this again. Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die, the future stretched away in front of us, unknown, unseen, not perhaps what we wanted, not what we planned. This moment was safe though, this could not be touched. Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand-in-hand, and the past and the future mattered not at all. This was secure, this funny little fragment of time he would never remember, never think about again…For them it was just after lunch, quarter-past-three on a haphazard afternoon, like any hour, like any day. They did not want to hold it close, imprisoned and secure, as I did. They were not afraid."
— Daphne du Maurier

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. "
— Denis Waitley

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
— John Updike (A Month of Sundays)

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."
— Robert Jordon (Starscape Boxed Set B)

"Time is what we want most,but what we use worst."
— William Penn

"The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed."
— Michael R. Phillips

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."
— Charles Buxton

"Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend."
— Diogenes Laërtius

"In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
— T.S. Eliot

"We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.

And then I open the door and go to the dining-room, where he is sitting waiting for me at a table, and I think how in that moment I have aged, and passed on, how I have advanced one step towards an unknown destiny.

We smile, we choose our lunch, we speak of this and that, but - I say to myself-I am not she who left him five minutes ago. She has stayed behind. I am another woman, older, more mature…"
— Daphne du Maurier

"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space."
— Graham Greene

"Time is the system that must prevent everything happening at once."
— Cees Nooteboom

"O tempo, o tempo, o tempo e suas águas inflamáveis, esse rio largo que não cansa de correr, lento e sinuoso, ele próprio reconhecendo seus caminhos, recolhendo e filtrando de vária direção o caldo turvo dos afluentes e o sangue ruivo de outros canais para com eles construir a razão mística da história..."
— Raduan Nassar

"agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad."
— William Shakespeare

"I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

And he says,
"How much time do you want?""
— Diamanda Galás (The Shit of God: The Texts of Diamanda Galás)

"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."
— Lenny Bruce (The Essential Lenny Bruce)

"'T's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

"There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door."
— Larry Niven