Paulo Coelho Quotes

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.

Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Time has only a relative existence.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.