Quotes about time
261 quotes from 169 people
John Wesley1703–1791Letter (10 December 1777)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948)Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8: How I Conquered Worry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Seaside and the Fireside (1850), The Builders, st. 1.Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939Cat’s Eye (1988)Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1915), 45The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899What Is Religion? (1899) is Ingersoll’s last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston, June 2, 1899Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Bluebeard (1987), p. 82
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 167
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864“Wakefield” (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 3
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
