TIME QUOTES VIII

quotations about time

O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

JAMES THURBER

The 13 Clocks

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Time, ghost-like, glides by us invisible, unseen, amid the glare and turmoil of the day; but in the gloom and silence of the midnight hour he stands revealed, and with one hand points mockingly to the wasted, marred past, and with the other towards the future; he whispers, in the lonely hour, into our ears the startling, fateful word, "Eternity."

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays, vol. II


Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A New Refutation of Time", Other Inquisitions

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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

ZONA GALE

"Miggy"

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One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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Time treads down empires.

DUGALD MOORE

"To the Moon"

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Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?

SAMUEL BECKETT

Waiting for Godot

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He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

"Bearded Oaks"

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Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

lines written the night before his death

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The end of time is the birthday of Eternity.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

VLADIMIR LENIN

attributed, The Great Book Of Best Quotes Of All Time

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So much of what we now call time is a collective myth, devised by emperors, industrialists, protesters, and tinkerers.

DEREK THOMPSON

"A Brief Economic History of Time", The Atlantic, December 21, 2016


Stealing a moment from Mr. Time
He rocks in his chair like a shiny dime
But it's all for show, all for show.
Wearing your name and a number or two
When the minute's up, so are you
But everybody knows, everybody knows.

THE ALAN PARSON PROJECT

"Mr. Time"


Time puts out all other flames
But the glory of his eyes;
His are all the sacred names,
His the solemn mysteries.
Crown him! In his darkest day,
He has heaven to give away!

CAROLINE SPENCER

"The Royal Name"

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Make good use of Time ... reflect that yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured, today is only yours, which if you procrastinate you lose.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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