Quotes about Time
Would you say, "Billy, be home by the time the Earth has rotated enough so as to occult the Sun below the local horizon"? Billy would be long gone before you're finished.
— Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies, who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
— Carl Sagan
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.
— Carl Sagan
It's time to start storing up our treasures in heaven, instead of hoarding them on earth.
— Terri Blackstock
Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
What is happening in the present moment is life.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If we continue to hold on to a dream for something in the future, we lose the present moment. And if we lose the present, we lose everything.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You end up sacrificing quality time with family and friends, and you end up sacrificing time with yourself. Often you even sacrifice your health.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is short; it must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculations which will not be able to bring us the Truth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
— Soren Kierkegaard