70 phrases about time and the passing of life.

A selection of famous phrases and quotes that invite us to reflect on time.

Time passes and never goes back. We live in constant change, in constant evolution, immersed in stressful routines, seeing how time slips through our hands without us being fully aware of it.

Many authors and thinkers of history have reflected on the passage of time and how the maelstrom of everyday life influences us irremediably.

Sentences about time to reflect on

There are phrases about time and the passing of life that invite us to pay more attention to the little things in life.

In this compilation we will read great quotes about time.. They are famous quotes that will make us reflect on the value of time and the need to take advantage of it. Every moment is unique! Choose your favorites and, if you wish, apply them to your life.

 

1. Time is the most valuable thing a person can spend (Theophrastus)

Forget about material goods. True happiness lies in valuing time and using it to live to the fullest.

2. Love is something eternal, the appearance may change, but not the essence. (Jeff Zinnert)

One of the many famous phrases that relate love to the absence of the time factor.

3. Do you love life? If you love life, do not waste time, for time is the good of which life is made (Benjamin Franklin).

To realize that time is passing is the best vaccine against sadness.

4. Those who love deeply never grow old, they may die of old age but they die young (Arthur Wing Pinero).

The joy of being passionate.

5. Love is energy: it is neither created nor destroyed. It simply is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness. Love will never die (Bryce Courtney)

A somewhat abstract quote to understand the passage of time.

6. All my possessions for a moment more of time (Elizabeth I)

It is no use being rich if our time is running out.

7. The past limits us, but the future frightens us. The only safe place is the present (Isaac Lopez)

The only place where we have the power to change things is the present.

8. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... Live your own life. Everything else is secondary (Steve Jobs)

Forget about trivial worries and focus on enjoying your own life.

9. Love is space and time measured by the Heart (Marcel Proust)

The French writer, in a valuable reflection.

10. If you let time pass without doing anything, you will soon realize that you will only live once (Anonymous).

Another phrase that exhorts us not to waste time.

11. Time is the currency of your life. It is the only currency you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful not to let other people spend it for you (Carl Sandburg).

Each of us is the master of our time.

12. He is not a lover who does not love forever (Euripides)

Love and time come together in this magnificent quote.

13. A man who allows himself to waste an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life (Charles Darwin).

A rather blunt phrase from the famous British biologist and explorer.

14. Every moment I spend without you is a moment of wasted time (RR Tolkien)

Love and time, in another unforgettable reflection.

15. What is time? If nobody asks me, I know. But if I had to explain it to someone I would not know how to do it (Saint Augustine).

A very difficult concept to explain in words.

16. How foolish is the man who lets time go by sterile (Goethe).

Another sentence in favor of taking advantage of every second of life.

17. Pythagoras, when asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world (Plutarch).

The Greek mathematician answered this way when he was asked to define the concept of time.

18. Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that's how relative time is (Mario Benedetti)

The great poet Mario Benedetti in a very inspiring phrase.

19. The only thing that really belongs to us is time. Even he who has nothing possesses it (Baltasar Gracián).

As human beings, it is practically the only thing we can experience.

20. Time is the best author; it always finds a perfect ending (Charles Chaplin).

The great Charlot, in a reflection that went down in history.

21. I wasted time. Now time wastes me (William Shakespeare)

Not being aware of time can lead us to despair.

22. Let us lose nothing of our time; perhaps there have been more beautiful times, but this is ours (Jean Paul Sartre).

Every era has its lights and shadows.

23. Time is both the most valuable and the most perishable of our resources (John Randolph).

An uncomfortable paradox.

24. A minute that passes is irretrievable. Knowing this, how can we waste so many hours? (Mahatma Gandhi)

A great quote from Gandhi.

25. You can ask me for anything you want, except time.

The French general also valued time above all things.

26. Without time there is no future, but with time you can miss the present.

If you live in a state of permanent projection you may not taste the joys of being alive.

27. Time is one of the few important things we have left (Salvador Dalí)

The Catalan painter, in this famous quote about the passing of life.

28. Time is but the stream in which I am fishing (Henry David Thoreau)

Nothing more than that. A nice metaphor.

29. Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves (Lord Chesterfield).

To take advantage of each instant will bring very sweet fruits.

30. There is no memory that time will not erase, nor sorrow that death will not end (Miguel de Cervantes).

A poetic phrase of the Spanish writer.

It is said that time is a great teacher; the bad thing is that it kills its disciples (Hector Berlioz).

Death is inevitable, and time is the one in charge of dictating sentence.

32. To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time (Jorge Luis Borges)

A romantic and very inspiring phrase by the great writer Borges.

33. My basic truth is that all time is an expanding now (Severo Ochoa)

A philosophical phrase that can help you understand the concept.

34. The challenge is in the moment; time is always now (James Baldwin).

Living in the present is the key to an existence full of well-being.

35. They always say that time changes things, but in reality you have to change them yourself (Andy Warhol).

Do not rely on time but on yourself to be the architect of important changes.

36. Time is an illusion (Albert Einstein)

For the German scientist, time is not real but a mere psychological illusion..

37. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Each stage of life has its particularities.

38. Any moment that is not spent in love, is lost (Torquato Tasso)

It is better to invest our efforts in sowing good energies.

39. Old age and the passage of time teach all things (Sophocles).

Only the passing of the years will give you the necessary knowledge to understand the world.

40. Your time is now, don't waste it thinking about what could have been and wasn't (Steve Jobs)

A motivational phrase that takes us away from melancholy.

41. Time is the best medicine for all ills (Steve Jobs)

Another inspiring phrase from Steve Jobs.

42. The value and respect of time determine success or failure (Malcolm X)

The leader for black rights, in a famous motivational quote.

43. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is gone. The future is not guaranteed (Wayne Dyer)

A reflection that we should always keep in mind.

44. The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion (Albert Einstein).

Another assertion of the German physicist, about his notion of time.

45. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who maintains the ability to see beauty does not grow old (Franz Kafka).

This is how the Jewish writer speaks to us about happiness.

46. If you see that time passes and you do not advance, maybe you should change your habits (Karl Malone).

The basketball player was clear about the engine of success.

47. Perfection is the child of time (Joseph Hall)

By giving time and affection you can sculpt the greatest work of art.

48. The strongest of all warriors are time and patience (Leo Tolstoy).

Very much along the lines of the above famous quote. Patience and constancy are the best advisors if you want to go far in life.

49. The law, democracy, love... nothing has more weight on our lives than time (Winston Churchill).

The passing of life is inevitable.

50. Fortunate is the man who has time to wait (Calderón de la Barca).

Most of us are impatient.

51. Let's give time to time: for the glass to overflow it must be filled first (Antonio Machado)

In this list of phrases about time we could not miss this beautiful quote from the Spanish poet.

52. Time heals everything, but life can only be lived once (Anonymous)

Do not hesitate to live each day as if it were your last.

53. Old age does not improve the heart: it hardens it (Count of Chesterfield).

A reflection on the psychological changes that occur as we age.

54. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and go, but the human being remains (Nikola Tesla).

Humanity is that which resists the passage of time.Humanity is that which resists the passage of time, whereas the same is not true of its concrete expressions.

55. Children have neither past nor future, that is why they enjoy the present, something that rarely happens to us (Jean de la Bruyere).

A reflection on the way in which children experience time.

56. The present is the necessary result of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future (Robert Green Ingersoll).

An easy way to understand the cause-effect line that goes from the past to the future.

57. To long for the past is to run after the wind (proverb)

A beautiful metaphor about the past.

58. Count your age by friends, not years (John Lennon)

There are different ways to measure the progress of timeand this is one alternative.

59. Old age leads to an indifferent tranquility that assures inner and outer peace (Anatole France).

Another of the phrases about time and its effects on us.

60. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana).

It is necessary to take into account what happened in order to be able to establish useful forecasts.

61. It is never too late to do well; do today what you did not do yesterday.

A piece of Spanish proverb.

62. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of the spirit (Mateo Alemán).

Another way of conceiving the idea of youth.

63. It is said that the new generations will be difficult to govern, and I hope so (Alain).

The generational relay brings political changes.

64. The present does not exist, it is a point between illusion and nostalgia (Llorenç Villalonga)

Another of the phrases about time that focus on the nature of the present.

65. Some people are willing to do anything but live in the here and now (John Lennon)

Procrastination and social pressure lead us not to live in the present.

66. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty, the commentary (Arthur Schopenhauer).

A commentary on the progress of life and how it teaches us through different aspects of reality.

67. Maturity is the age when you are still young, but with much more effort (Jean-Louis Barrault).

The passage to middle age does not have to mean a break with the past.

68. When we think that tomorrow will never come, it has already become yesterday (Henry Ford).

The perception of time need not be realistic.

69. Tomorrow is only an adverb of time (Graham Greene)

A phrase about time based on the idea of the future.

70. Those who share our childhood, never seem to grow up (Graham Greene)

The time in life when we meet influences how we perceive ourselves.