Time passes and never goes back . We live in constant change, in constant evolution, immersed in stressful routines, watching time slip through our fingers without our 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 irrevocably.

Phrases about time for reflection

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

In this compilation we will read great famous quotes about time . These are famous quotes that will make us reflect on the value of time and the need to make the most 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 aspect 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? For if you love life, do not waste time, for time is the good that life is made of (Benjamin Franklin)

Making a point of the fact that time is going is the best vaccine against sadness.

4. Those who love deeply never grow old, may die of old age but 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 famous, somewhat abstract quote to understand the passage of time.

6. All my possessions for a moment longer (Elizabeth I)

It’s 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 in 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.

Forget about trivial concerns 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 go by without doing anything, you will soon realize that you will only live once (Anonymous)

Another phrase that urges us not to waste time.

11. Time is your life’s currency. 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)

We each own our own time.

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

Love and time come together in this magnificent and famous event.

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 lost time (RR Tolkien)

Love and time, in another unforgettable reflection.

15. What is time? If no one asks me, I know. But if I had to explain it to someone, I wouldn’t know how to do it (St. Augustine)

A very difficult concept to explain in words.

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

Another sentence in favour 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 responded in this way when he was asked to define the concept of time.

18. Five minutes are enough to dream a lifetime, 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 (Balthasar Gracian)

As human beings, it’s 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 my time. Now time is wasting me (William Shakespeare)

Not being aware of time can lead to despair.

22. Let us not waste any of our time; perhaps there were more beautiful ones, 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 goes by is unrecoverable. Knowing this, how can we waste so many hours? (Mahatma Gandhi)

A great line from Gandhi.

25. You can ask me anything you want, except time (Napoleon)

The French general also valued time above all things.

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

If you live in a state of permanent projection you may not taste the honeys 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 passage of life.

28. Time is but the current 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)

Taking advantage of every moment will bring very sweet fruits.

30. There is no memory that time does not erase, nor is there a penalty that death does not end (Miguel de Cervantes)

A poetic phrase from Spanish literature.

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

Death is unavoidable, and time is in charge of passing 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 (Severe Ochoa)

A philosophical phrase that can help you understand the concept.

34. The challenge is in the moment; the 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 they have to change themselves (Andy Warhol)

Don’t rely on time but rely 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 (Victor Hugo)

Every stage of life has its peculiarities.

38. Any time that is not spent on love, is lost (Torquato Tasso)

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

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

Only the passage of time will give you the knowledge you need 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 motivating phrase that takes us away from melancholy.

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

Another inspiring quote from Steve Jobs.

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

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

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

A reflection we should always keep in mind.

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

Another statement by the German physicist, about his notion of time.

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

The Jewish writer talks to us like this about happiness.

46. If you see that time is passing and you are not advancing, maybe you should change your habits (Karl Malone)

The basketball player was clear about what the engine of success is.

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

By giving time and love you can manage to sculpt the greatest work of art.

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

Very much in line with the previous famous quote. Patience and constancy are the best advisors if you want to go far in life.

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

The passage of life is inevitable.

50. Lucky 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, this beautiful quote from the Spanish poet could not be missed.

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

Don’t hesitate to live each day as if it were your last.

53. Old age does not improve the heart: it hardens it (Earl 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 , while the same is not true of its concrete expressions.

55.Children have no past and no future, so they enjoy the present, which rarely happens to us (Jean de la Bruyere)

A reflection on the way 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 from the past to the future.

57. To miss 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 time , and this is an alternative.

59. Old age leads to an indifferent tranquillity that ensures 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)

What happened must be taken into account in order to establish useful forecasts.

61.It is never too late to do good; do today what you did not do yesterday (Proverbs)

A piece of the Spanish proverb.

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

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 about political changes.

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

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

65.Some are willing to do anything but live 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 life’s progress and how it teaches us through different aspects of reality.

67.The mature age is the one in which one is still young, but with much more effort (Jean-Louis Barrault)

The passage into middle age need not be 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 does not have to be realistic.

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

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

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

The time of life in which we know ourselves influences how we perceive ourselves.