TIME QUOTES II
quotations about time
Time past is a bitter memory; time present a constant struggle; time to come a fearful blank.
R. E. RASPE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.
ANGELUS SILESIUS
Messenger of the Heart
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Clockwork Prince
Killing time is not an easy job.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Dance, Dance, Dance
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
JOHN UPDIKE
A Month of Sundays
Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is to say "I don't want to."
LAO TZU
O Magazine, January 2007
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"For Katrina's Sun-Dial in Her Garden of Yaddo"
We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.
JULIAN BARNES
The Sense of an Ending
Always in motion is the future.
YODA
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
ANDREW MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress
Time: a great engraver, or eraser.
YAHIA LABABIDI
Signposts to Elsewhere
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES
fragment, Æolus
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Les Caracteres
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
PINK FLOYD
"Time"