Time Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

“What is past is what is real.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Time is living me.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

The time for your labor has been granted.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance of which we are made

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every…

— Jorge Luis Borges

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries -…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Afterglow" Sunset is always disturbing whether theatrical or muted, but still more disturbing is that last desperate glow that turns the plain…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Someone A man worn down by time, a man who does not even expect death (the proofs of death are statistics and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point…

— Jorge Luis Borges