TIME QUOTES XIV

quotations about time


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I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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interview, The Paris Review, spring-summer 1965


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For though time may seem to drag slowly on
Before you will know it, time will be gone.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"The Voice of the Clock"

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Ye are but actors moved at Time's behest,
And king or slave as shifts the pantomime.

KENNETH RAND

"Sonnet"

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We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed.

JACK GILBERT

"Burning (Andante Non Troppo)"


Time has laid his hand
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The Golden Legend

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Time goes, you say? ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.

GREGORY BENFORD

Furious Gulf

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Time ... antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents

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There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

DEAN KOONTZ

Forever Odd

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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

KOBO ABE

The Woman in the Dunes

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The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Conquest of Happiness


I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard II

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Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church.

JAMES BALDWIN

If Beale Street Could Talk

Tags: James Baldwin


Time gives his hour-glass
Its due reversal.
Their hour is gone.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"Consolation"


Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals.

THEOPHRASTUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

HORACE

Odes

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Time seemed wormholed and faulted, honeycombed in mazes that crossed and recrossed.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

Tags: William Shakespeare


Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

J. M. COETZEE

In the Heart of the Country

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