TIME QUOTES VI

quotations about time

Time quote

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time
But from its loss. To give it then a tongue
Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke,
I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright,
It is the knell of my departed hours.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

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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"

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Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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I shall soar and sing o'er the wrecks of Time.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"The Maiden's Lament to Her False Lover"


The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

CESARE PAVESE

"Morning Star over Calabria"

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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.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Time's Ravages"

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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

ROLLO MAY

Man's Search for Himself

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Time sure kicks the shit out of people.

DAN SIMMONS

Lovedeath

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Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl

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Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

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Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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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, September 22, 1921


How unthinking must those unhappy persons be, who make it a common excuse for idle and pernicious amusements, that they do it to kill Time.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


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.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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For more than two thousand years, the world's great minds have argued about the essence of time. Is it finite or infinite? Does it flow like a river or is it granular, proceeding in small bits, like sand trickling through an hourglass? And what is the present? Is now an indivisible instant, a line of vapor between the past and the future? Or is it an instant that can be measured--and, if so, how long is it? And what lies between the instants?

ALAN BURDICK

"The Secret Life of Time", The New Yorker, December 19, 2016


Time depends on the position of the observer and the direction in which he looks.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


Only time conquers time and its burdens.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was"--that is the name of the stone it cannot roll.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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