Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

Every second is of infinite value.

In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.