quotations about time
Day by day Time rolls the scroll of Life,
Yet man heeds not in worldly strife
The vanished years, till Death demands his claim--
The mound-lines of the clay that mark his name.
HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE
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"Day by Day"
Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Science and Human Values
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 is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Time admits no argument.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Deerslayer
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
MICHAEL J. FOX
interview, Good Housekeeping, April 2009
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
MACKEY MILLER
Mouse Attack 5!!!
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
When I was a child, I thought the pageant of the past was still intact and traveling in space at 186,282 miles per second, aboard a science-fiction beam of light under the command of Captain Clock. Not yet having learned how to count time as money, I know the beam of light is time shaped by the force of the human imagination and the powers of its expression (in the languages of art and science but not as the commodity discounted as an abstraction), and I'm content to live temporarily suspended in as many kinds and sorts of time (historical, biological, metaphysical, and mythological) as were my pagan forebears long since descended into the glossy darkness under the turf at Stonehenge.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
"Captain Clock", Lapham's Quarterly: Time
Time: the whisper beneath that word is death.
JAMES BALDWIN
Just Above My Head
Time is a treasure to the industrious, a burden to the indolent.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.
GREGORY BENFORD
Artifact
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
STEPHEN HAWKING
A Brief History of Time
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Lord of Light
For time to pass means for events to be linearly ordered, by earlier and later. The causal structure of the world depends on its temporal structure. The present state of the universe produces the successive states. To understand the later states, you look at the earlier states and not the other way around. Of course, the later states can give you all kinds of information about the earlier states, and, from the later states and the laws of physics, you can infer the earlier states. But you normally wouldn't say that the later states explain the earlier states. The direction of causation is also the direction of explanation.
TIM MAUDLIN
"A Defense of the Reality of Time", Quanta Magazine, May 16, 2017
Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.
MARTIN AMIS
Time's Arrow