Top 100 Time Is Passing Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#3. Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.
Colin Powell
#4. Time is passing : not leaden stepping
But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by.
Richard L. Ratliff
#5. I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#6. When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
Sappho
#8. It is the fact that time is passing that creates its preciousness.
Ethan Hawke
#9. Right now a moment of time is passing by! ... We must become that moment.
Paul Cezanne
#10. Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
Lemony Snicket
#11. For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
Jason Silva
#12. My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
Andy Rooney
#13. When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
Richard Greenberg
#14. Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things ... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.
Ruth Carter Stapleton
#15. Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.
George W. Bush
#16. Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
Kamand Kojouri
#17. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#18. All that crap about time being a great healer is bullshit. Time heals nothing. Well, acne maybe.
Saurbh Katyal
#19. Time is your only enemy, it disappears very quickly and never gives you a second chance.
Steve Douglas
#20. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
John Dingell
#25. The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.
Adam Hamilton
#26. The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.
David Grossman
#27. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.
Sanober Khan
#28. Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.
Bill Bonanno
#29. The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#30. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.
Ruth Ozeki
#31. 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
#32. Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#33. Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it's used up, it is called living.
Kenneth Eade
#35. There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this far, and you can't go back.
Haruki Murakami
#36. An important memory is like a gravitational field
the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.
Rikki Ducornet
#38. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.
Rodney Gage
#39. 'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.
Steve Erickson
#40. I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.
Peter Ackroyd
#41. I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.
Carmelo Anthony
#42. Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.
Miles Franklin
#43. The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that part of you that was born into time, that matures in time, or at least grows older in time and then decays and passes away.
Gary Zukav
#44. Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time.
James Frey
#45. Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.
Robert Grudin
#46. I would say, however, that romantic sentiment is a keen and pathetic sense of time, a few hours of amorous delight, the idea that everything passes away; a deeper sentiment for autumn, for twilight, for the passing nature of our own lives.
Jorge Luis Borges
#47. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
Anthony Marra
#48. Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Frances Wright
#49. Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
Jeanette Winterson
#50. It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It
Ruskin Bond
#51. 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
#52. Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time!
Milan Jed
#53. 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
#54. Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#55. Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason Cooley
#56. Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#57. You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.
David Wong
#58. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#59. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.
Haruki Murakami
#60. 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
#61. Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#62. One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.
Pawan Mishra
#63. Time is mutable! Time changes! Take your time, but, as much as possible; don't forget to take all the chances in your life time!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.
Tom Wolfe
#65. 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
#66. I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
Roman Payne
#67. This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
Ann Voskamp
#68. It is amazing how much the little hiccups of misfortune tag ones life with their passing.
- the seashel book of time
Rusty A. Biesele
#69. The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.
Gabriel Josipovici
#70. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted
Sunday Adelaja
#71. 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
#72. A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#73. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.
Michael A. Stackpole
#74. What is time? How is it measured? Why do we measure it? What is its purpose?
-Mr. Ludwig
S.L. Whyte
#75. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.
Genghis Khan
#76. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.
Ryu Murakami
#77. I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.
Julian Barnes
#78. My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.
M.J. Chrisman
#79. It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
Watchman Nee
#80. There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.
Gerhard E Frost
#82. Vision without action is a dream.
Action without vision is simply passing the time.
Action with Vision is making a positive difference.
Joel Baker
#83. 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
#84. Two years in a child's life is the distance between stars.
Nancy Horan
#85. One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
Michael Emerson
#86. Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.
Brassai
#87. In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Andre Malraux
#88. You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Ann Brashares
#89. I think I might understand the way time works: how its passing is impossible to see but when it's gone, you feel it.
Lysley Tenorio
#90. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.
Sebastian Barry
#91. When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#92. I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
George Washington
#93. You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness of time. Those who are not aware of time passing do not get bored. It's not the time that passes, it's the time that doesn't pass.
Emil Cioran
#95. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#96. There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.
Keri Hulme
#97. 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
#99. In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.
Michael Crichton
#100. Time is priceless gift.
Time defined moments.
Time lost can not be redefined.
May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
