TIME QUOTES II

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

DEAN KOONTZ, Forever Odd

But at my back I always hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

All substances the cunning chemist Time

Melts down into that liquor of my life.

The wings of Time are black and white,

Pied with morning and with night.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,

To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,

To stamp the seal of time in aged things,

To wake the morn and sentinel the night,

To wrong the wronger till he render right,

To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,

And smear with dust their glittering golden towers;

To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,

To feed oblivion with decay of things,

To blot old books and alter their contents,

To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings,

To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,

To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,

And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;

To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,

To make the child a man, the man a child,

To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,

To tame the unicorn and lion wild,

To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,

To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,

And waste huge stones with little water drops.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Day by day Time rolls the scroll of Life,

Yet man heeds not in worldly strife

The vanished years, till Death demands his claim--

The mound-lines of the clay that mark his name.

Time sure kicks the shit out of people.

Time has ghosts. That's what time is: the ghost of every instant passed, haunting the potential of every moment to come.

Pass on, ever on, O Time! ush'ring in

New joys, new aspirations, and new life.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,

Be happy while you may!

Still Time, great wizard of this earth,

Who holds o'er human minds such sway!

Oft bids to scenes of later birth

Old recollections to give way.

I believe in the force of time, the impetus of that dimension that seems to have baffled even the physicists, the power of that force that will, in time, cure every ill, solve every problem, fulfill every nightmare. Time. I see time all about me, like a substance. I see it in the clutter of my apartment, in the fabric of the city, in the lessons that I teach. The tyranny of time, as dictatorial as any god.

Oh, thou divinest healer Time

And thing sublime!

That thou should'st gladly life's lorn nest

Anew invest,

And set before the eyes of man

A deeper purpose, holier plan,

And gently bridge the abysmal span,

'Twixt earth and rest!

We grasp at Time, but cannot hold

One minute of his treasured hour;

He tarries not, though oft we pray

That he will rest in youth's bright bower.

Even such is time, that takes in trust

Our youth, our joys, our all we have,

And pays us but with age and dust.

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