Time Slips Quotes

#1. Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of ... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. 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

#3. People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

David Levithan

#4. Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Bruce Springsteen

#5. Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

Keith Donohue

#6. Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way.

Mark Strand

#7. The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Louis XIV

#8. There is no backstory in dream. Time slips all its handcuffs. So:

Gregory Maguire

#9. Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

Robin Sharma

#10. People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Raoul Vaneigem

#11. Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Siri Hustvedt

#12. Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Joseph Campbell

#13. One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#14. Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

Lori Foster

#15. Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time.

Anonymous

#16. You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

James Lee Burke

#17. There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life
real life
seems to exist at one remove.

Jojo Moyes

#18. But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Anne Michaels

#19. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#21. I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Vikas Swarup

#22. As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

Natalia Ginzburg

#23. I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

John Waters

#24. TIME
Time
And how it slips through my fingers
Without putting its ring on them,
And I remain simply its lover

Visar Zhiti

#25. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Scott Adams

#26. In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#27. I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and again. Now, when we finally in our grasp, the truth slaps us in the face.

Hiromu Arakawa

#28. Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Minor White

#29. Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

Jason Fried

#30. He always suspected the poetic description of Time like an ever-rolling stream. Time, in his experience, moved more like rocks ... sliding, pressing, building up force underground and then, with one jerk that shakes the crockery, a whole field of turnips mysteriously slips sideways by six feet.

Terry Pratchett

#31. On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex flags from across the room.

Richard Price

#32. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Fannie Flagg

#33. I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Moryah DeMott

#34. Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

Erica O'Rourke

#35. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass
the earth
into the second
eternity.

Margaret George

#36. Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isaac Brock

#37. By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Stephen King

#38. The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

Susan Straight

#39. Time and tide waits for no man, to capture time, treasure every moment in your life and let the time that slowly slips away memorable and worthy to be kept as sweet memories

M.O. Kenyan

#40. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink