16 Enticing Quotes about Time

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Here are 16 enticing quotes from fantasy, fiction, and biographical literature about time and the concept of the past, present, and future.

“Time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.”
Robin Hobb, Assassin’s Quest

“The vexing thing about time…is that it’s never enough. Perhaps a decade too short, perhaps a moment. But a life always ends too soon.”
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“So change happens and time passes…Time moves too slow or too fast. But I know a secret. You can control time. You can stop it or stretch it or loop it around. You can travel back and forth by living in the moment and paying attention. Time can be your bitch if you just let go of the ‘next’ and the ‘before.'”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I believe you can time-travel three different ways: with people, places, and things.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it does not exist and never shall. There is only now.”
Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seemed like all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it’s as though knowing everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever.”
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“There is the past and there is the future. The present is never more than a single second dividing one from the other. We lived poised on that second as it’s hurtling forward.”
Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods and Monsters

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you- sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers…snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautidul and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.”
Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“No matter what happens in the future, no matther where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.”
Marie Lu, Prodigy

“That was nice about the past- it stayed right where you put it until you needed to pick it up again.”
Orson Scott Card, Visitors

“It’s beautiful and it’s real, but our time together could be as fleeting as now on the plateau. We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever we have.”
Ally Condie, Crossed

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