Time Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

— Jeanette Winterson

“It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.”

— Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love…

— Jeanette Winterson

“A sign of the times. But the times has so many signs that if we read them all we'd die of heartbreak.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take…

— Jeanette Winterson

“People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep…

— Jeanette Winterson

“For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It would not be the first time that Jove and Stella had covered the traces of where I began and where they…

— Jeanette Winterson

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was…

— Jeanette Winterson

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my…

— Jeanette Winterson

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Time has no meaning, space and place have no meaning, on this journey. All times can be inhabited, all places visited. In…

— Jeanette Winterson

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge…

— Jeanette Winterson

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding…

— Jeanette Winterson

“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of…

— Jeanette Winterson

“There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Memories separated in time are often recalled side by side-there's an emotional connection that has nothing to do with the diary dates…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Don't you ever think of going back?" Silly question. There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I told my version – faithful and invented, accurate and misremembered, shuffled in time. I told myself as hero like any shipwreck…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting,…

— Jeanette Winterson

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

— Jeanette Winterson