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There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.
- But at my back I always hear
- Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Day's Ration
Only time conquers time and its burdens.
- The wings of Time are black and white,
- Pied with morning and with night.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Compensation
- 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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
MICHAEL J. FOX, Good Housekeeping, Apr. 2009
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
Let every man be master of his time.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
- 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.
HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE, "Day by Day"
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.
TIM LEBBON, Fears Unnamed
- 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!
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, "The Lake"
- 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.
ANNE S. BUSHBY, "Florinda"
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.
SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas
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