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There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
EUGENE O'NEILL, A Moon for the Misbegotten
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Mysticism and Logic
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?
SAMUEL BECKETT, Waiting for Godot
Time is money.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Advice to Young Tradesmen
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
JOHN MILTON, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
Time brings all things to pass.
AESCHYLUS, The Libation Bearers
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Conquest of Happiness
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Time
- Like a petal in the wind
- Flows softly by
- As old lives are taken
- New ones begin
- A continual chain
- Which lasts throughout eternity
- Every life but a minute in time
- But each of equal importance
CINDY CHENEY, "Time"
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
JOHN UPDIKE, A Month of Sundays
- Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
- Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
- So the little minutes, humble though they be,
- Make the mighty ages of eternity.
JULIA CARNEY, Little Things
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible.
Always in motion is the future.
YODA, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
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.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Deerslayer
- Time is of your own making;
- Its clock ticks in your head.
- The moment you stop thought
- Time too stops dead.
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
- In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY, Festus
Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.
ALFRED SUTRO, The Open Door
The days are such a repetition of each other that they sometimes seem very long, but when one pauses and looks back one starts at the accumulation of departed time, and deplores the swiftness of the seasons.
ROBERT GRANT, "The Romance of a Soul"
- Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
- Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
Indifferent to the affairs of men, time runs out, precise, heedless, exact, and immutable in rhythm.
ERWIN SYLVANUS, Dr. Korczak and the Children
Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is to say "I don't want to."
LAO TZU, O Magazine, Jan. 2007
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY, War and Peace
- Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
- It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
- It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
CONRAD AIKEN, The House of Dust
The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.
CRAIG CALLENDER, Scientific American, June 2010
Time is a face on the water.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
- We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days
- Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live,
- Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
Time is the great physician.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Endymion
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.
SEAN M. CARROLL, Scientific American, June 2008
- Time is but a phantom dagger
- That motion lifts to slay itself.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM, "Advice To a Pool"
O aching time! O moments big as years!
JOHN KEATS, "Hyperion: A Fragment"
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
- E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
- That Time upon her angel brow should set
- His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
- Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
- The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
- Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.
ISAAC MCLELLAN, "Musings"
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Time is a lake, getting deeper year by year, drop by drop. Surface tension, the electric presence of our staccato acts, keeps us scuttling like water bugs on its surface, unmindful of the depths we traverse. We're safe, afloat in the now, until we stop moving and begin to sink into the past. Only then do we realize how important all those yesterdays were, how they hold each present moment to the sun; and how many people we leave behind, stricken in time like ambered insects.
MICHAEL MARSHALL, Blood of Angels
- Time is the root of all this earth;
- These creatures, who from Time had birth,
- Within his bosom at the end
- Shall sleep; Time hath nor enemy nor friend.
Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
SUSAN GLASPELL, "Tickless Time"
How rapidly time urges his flight; sometimes as a relentless, unsparing destroyer; but oftener as a swift-winged and beautiful angel; changing, yet not taking away this world's blessings: making our past sorrows look dim in the distance; opening many flowers of pleasure on our way, and gradually ripening our souls for the great eternity.
WILLIAM CHAMBERS, The Herald of Gospel Liberty, Sep. 22, 1921
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
DOUGLAS ADAMS, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Time eases all things.
- Time is a train
- Makes the future the past
- Leaves you standing in the station
- Your face pressed up against the glass
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER, The Sound and the Fury
- Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
- He speeds; we pass away!
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, "The Lake"
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife.
THOMAS MANN, The Beloved Returns
Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGES, "A New Refutation of Time," Other Inquisitions
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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