These time passing quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging time passing quotes, time passing sayings, and time passing proverbs.
Best Time Passing Quotes
- “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.” ~ Paul Auster
- “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey Mackay
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“Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” ~ John Green
- “Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.” ~ Marc Bolan
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“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Now is our time. It’s our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It’s our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.” ~ Shawn Anderson
- “The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale
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“Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is it’s current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“The trouble is you think you have time.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.” ~ Paracelsus
- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
- “Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.” ~ Henry Austin Dobson
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“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Hector Berlioz
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
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“Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended, or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future has not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” ~ Groucho Marx
- “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” ~ John Archibald Wheeler
- “Has it ever struck you … that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory … except for each passing moment.” ~ Eric Kandel
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“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” ~ Ovid
- “I don’t want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.” ~ Tori Amos
- “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” ~ Will Rogers , Time passing quotes about life
- “You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” ~ Nancy Reagan
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “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
- “Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.” ~ Ivan Turgenev
- “Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.” ~ Jaclyn Smith
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“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?” ~ Paracelsus
- “Before you know it it’s 3 am and you’re 80 years old and you can’t remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10-year-old heart.” ~ Anita Pallenberg
- “Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.” ~ Patti Smith
- “If you don’t value your time, no one else will.” ~ Donna Brazile
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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “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.
- “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Time passing quotes love
- “Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don’t try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.” ~ Dainin Katagiri
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“We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.” ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- “Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.” ~ Anais Nin
- “I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness… I’m just stuck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I’ll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “Pastime passing excellent if it he husbanded with modesty.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.” ~ Anna Neagle
- “Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems – as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn’t seem that scary.” ~ Charlie Kaufman
- “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ~ Earl Nightingale
- “There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.” ~ Marc Bolan
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“It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.” ~ Pierre Curie
- “The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.” ~ Sarah Manguso
- “I’ve been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it’s the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you’ll get up and do it again” ~ Jackson Browne
- “Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don’t worry girls, look like a wreck, that’s the way it goes.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
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“I think men spend so much time passing for being men.” ~ Junot Diaz
- “There are some moments you’d rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it’s mostly those moments in which it’s smarter-safer- to stay awake.” ~ Robin Wasserman
- “We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn’t confess to the secret of our own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it’s often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they’re gone.” ~ Alexander Theroux
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“She could’ve stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.” ~ Ilona Andrews
- “Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.” ~ Gary Comer
- “Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.” ~ Martin Heidegger
