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Category: Time and Passing

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1. "Punctuality is the thief of time."

Oscar Wilde


2. "To ignore the past is to jeopardize the future."

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3. "Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


4. "Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass."

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Quotations about: Love


5. "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear


6. "Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."

Rabindranath Tagore


7. "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Nature and Animals


8. "We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

Joseph Joubert


9. "Never be afraid of the moments; thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting."

Rabindranath Tagore



10. "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."

Maxim Gorky

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness


11. "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Wit and Humor


12. "God has commanded Time to console the unhappy."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Pain and Tears


13. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Happiness


14. "No man is rich enough to buy back his own past."

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


15. "The best prophet of the future is the past."

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16. "If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."

John Galsworthy, "Swan Song"


17. "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."

John Stuart Mill

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity


18. "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. "

Clive Staples Lewis


19. "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


20. "Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."

Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"


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21. "You may delay, but Time will not."

Benjamin Franklin


22. "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness


23. "Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today."

Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"


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

Abraham Lincoln


25. "The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

Herbert George Wells


26. "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."

Bob Marley


27. "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"


28. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta


29. "We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

Miguel de Unamuno


30. "Space is to place as eternity is to time."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Various

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