Time Impact Quotes

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

When you put new security measures in place there is a greater time lag than before.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

I'm different now than I was when I was 20 years old.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.