Great quotes on the mystery of time

Take a read through these great quotes on the mystery of time curated by the content team at Plotive.

“Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time.”

Jeaniene Frost

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

Alice Walker

“Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy.”

Rohinton Mistry

“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”

Benjamin Hoff

“Any time not spent on love is wasted.”

Torquato Tasso

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

Carl Sandburg

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”

Hermann Hesse

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”

Julian Barnes

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”

Sophocles

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

Stephen King

“The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.”

Joseph Campbell

“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”

Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”

Haruki Murakami

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

Orhan Pamuk

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”

John Steinbeck

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

Alan Wilson Watts

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

Anthony Doerr

“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”

Ray Cummings

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

William Gibson

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy

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