TIME QUOTES VI

quotations about time

Time quote

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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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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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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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune

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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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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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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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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


Time sure kicks the shit out of people.

DAN SIMMONS

Lovedeath

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

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl

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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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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


Who shall contend with time--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation?

HENRY KIRKE WHITE

"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White


If thou takest time into thy affairs, it will allay and arrange all things.

APOLLODORUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


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