Quotes About Time Passing By

#1. That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the sky and time passing by, and that was all, there was nothing else. And that was happiness.

Ninni Holmqvist

#2. 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

#3. She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

Ilona Andrews

#4. Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

Jaclyn Smith

#5. The time in your life can go by in the blink of an eye, so look for what lasts a lifetime.

J.R. Rim

#6. the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Every second that goes by is a point of no return.

J.R. Rim

#8. The passing of four decades brought outward changes to John and Jenny that masked any recognition of one another. But matters of the heart are not governed by time.

Thomas Allen

#9. One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Reid Scott

#10. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its 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

#11. Right now a moment of time is passing by! ... We must become that moment.

Paul Cezanne

#12. If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.

Srinivas Shenoy

#13. Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

Timothy W. Tron

#15. The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Daniel Pennac

#16. Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour.

Martel, Yann

#17. Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

Malti Bhojwani

#19. Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer

#20. An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

David Hume

#21. After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather's barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded by lovely women. He thought he'd died and regretted every time he'd ever cursed Maribor's name.

Michael J. Sullivan

#22. Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

Ray Palla

#23. The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

Sean Covey

#24. You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.

Herb Gardner

#25. Today..passes as yesterday, today is passing by ... Tomorrow shall become today and that too shall pass!

Escapades

#26. Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Life happens so fast and furiously that there is hardly any time to assimilate it.

Elizabeth Winder

#28. Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

Sue Grafton

#29. She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

Caleb Carr

#30. It's not time that is passing by after all, it's you and I

Karan Bajaj

#31. Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

Joyce Carol Oates

#32. Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment

Octavio Paz

#33. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Maureen Dowd

#34. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.

Sanober Khan

#36. There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.

Marcus Aurelius

#37. I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . .

Thomas Pynchon

#38. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...

Sanhita Baruah

#39. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#40. It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It

Ruskin Bond

#41. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

#42. Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

William James Moore

#43. As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

Lauren Conrad

#44. Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#46. One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.

Pawan Mishra

#47. As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.

Ovid

#48. Time is passing : not leaden stepping
But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by.

Richard L. Ratliff

#49. I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

Junot Diaz

#50. What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

John Green

#51. I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

Eugene Ionesco

#52. Time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again ... often history repeats itself before it changes ...

Prashant

#53. The clouds are passing by slowly as the moon appears. Like the clouds, there are certain things which will disappear with the passing of time. And when it happens, you'll realize that it wasn't any big deal.

Jin Sun Mi

#54. Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Mario Puzo

#55. Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

Anne Frank

#56. By and by we shall say goodbye

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#57. It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

John Lennon

#58. Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Dylan Moran

#59. When the whistling-thrush released
A deep sweet secret on the trembling air;
Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows,
Black rose in the long ago summer,
This was your song:
It isn't time that's passing by,
It is you and I.

Ruskin Bond

#60. Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]

Augustine Of Hippo