quotations about time
The end we know not; but we wander on,
Down the regretful wilderness of time.
HENRY ABBEY
"Emmanuel"
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
ROBERT FROST
"Acquainted with the Night"
Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Theses on the Philosophy of History
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON
Creative Evolution
Time means less than the color of zero.
RAVEN GREGORY
Alice in Wonderland, issue #1, January 2012
The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
The Way of Ecben
Time travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress.
JOANNA BAILLIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Those who understand the value of time use it as prudent people do their money--they make a little go a great way.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion