Paulo Coelho Quotes

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.