These time passes quotes will inspire you. Time passes to let time or a period of time go by especially while doing something enjoyable.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging time passes quotes, time passes sayings, and time passes proverbs.
Best Time Passes Quotes
- “Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second-hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
- “Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
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“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Hector Berlioz
- “Time passes. That’s the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.” ~ Cynthia Hand
- “However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.” ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.” ~ Henry Austin Dobson
- “Time and tide wait for no man.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
- “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” ~ Haruki Murakami , Time passes quotes memories
- “The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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“I’ve got a passion for what I’m doing and I feel privileged all the time.” ~ Nitin Sawhney
- “As time passes, my story fades away.” ~ Dave Dravecky
- “We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.” ~ James Gleick
- “We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.” ~ James Gleick
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“As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.” ~ Michael C. Hall
- “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” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology … But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Time passes too quickly when you’re getting ready to do something you don’t want to do.” ~ Courtney Summers , Time passes quotes quickly
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“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.” ~ Beth Revis
- “If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life… There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.” ~ Jeanette Winterson
- “And he isn’t crying for her, not for his grandma, he’s crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)” ~ Nicole Krauss
- “Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.” ~ David Dinkins
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“Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.” ~ Erin McKean
- “He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I’d blown it. I’d given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet the rock star of your dreams and donating the tickets to charity. It sucked. Big time.” ~ Colleen Houck
- “If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned – but you don’t really have the words to express your concern. There’s only this continued absence.” ~ Suzanne Collins
- “We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.” ~ Grace Napolitano
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“It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.” ~ William Morris
- “When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.” ~ Simone Weil
- “Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.” ~ John Fowles
- “A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.” ~ John Newton
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“We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.” ~ Naguib Mahfouz
- “How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.” ~ Bill W.
- “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.” ~ Julie Christie , Time passes quotes love
- “We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.” ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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“I you don’t value your time, no one else will.” ~ Donna Brazile
- “Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.” ~ Paul Watzlawick
- “It’s my belief that history is a wheel. ‘Inconstancy is my very essence,’? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don’t complain when you’re cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it’s also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.” ~ Boethius , Time passes quotes away
- “You can’t remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
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“The fathers who contrived and passed the Constitution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.” ~ Learned Hand
- “I make film to make time pass.” ~ Jean-Luc Godard
- “Sitting at home the way I do, I’d just love the hear from people. It’d be a great help in passing the time.” ~ Bud Abbott
- “Time passes irrevocably.” ~ Virgil
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“God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith… that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.” ~ Joseph Fielding Smith
- “This is now and forever – the moment everyone must-have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after all time.” ~ Patti Callahan Henry
- “I look back and think of all the times I’ve had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed – and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.” ~ Moby
- “Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.” ~ John Dewey
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“As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.” ~ Moby
- “Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.” ~ Leonard of Port Maurice
- “With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.” ~ Paul S. Kemp
- “So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in 1955, there comes the rupture, and all, nearly all of the left-wing intellectuals become hostile to him. Since he was already unfavorably viewed by the right-wing, he found himself entirely alone.” ~ Catherine Camus
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“[Big K.R.I.T] is a person who wants to make sure that the music is here for the kids when our time passes. He’s a respectful and respected man. He has a level of respect for me, and I definitely have a level of respect for him.” ~ David Banner
- “The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There’s whoever’s writing it and whoever’s drawing it. And then there’s whoever’s reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Physically, I feel probably as good as I’ve ever felt. And I’ve got as much energy as I ever did. But what you feel after eight years – and I think you’d feel this no matter what, but anytime you have a big transition, it gets magnified – is time passes.” ~ Barack Obama
- “We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.” ~ Che Guevara
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“The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
- “I think women assess time passage much better than men – because of their biological clocks – and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum…whereas men just drum.” ~ Danny Boyle
- “Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we’ve been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we’ve been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don’t realize that it’s history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say “Wow, there is history attached to that.”” ~ Carol Friedman
- “At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.” ~ Yoshi Wada
- “Because time isn’t something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.” ~ Paulo Coelho
