TIME QUOTES VI
quotations about time
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
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away!
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
"The Lake"
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
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
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"
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
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"
Time sure kicks the shit out of people.
DAN SIMMONS
Lovedeath
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 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
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Onion Girl
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
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
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
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 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
If thou takest time into thy affairs, it will allay and arrange all things.
APOLLODORUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Time depends on the position of the observer and the direction in which he looks.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
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