TIME QUOTES XVIII

quotations about time

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Theses on the Philosophy of History

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Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Time is the father of mutability.

SOLON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

The Way of Ecben

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The end we know not; but we wander on,
Down the regretful wilderness of time.

HENRY ABBEY

"Emmanuel"

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Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

E. L. DOCTOROW

Homer & Langley

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We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.

JOHN SAUL

Midnight Voices

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It is said that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I'd like to believe that time is a companion that goes with us on a journey, reminds us to cherish every moment because they won't come again.

DARIA NEKLESA

"She was a guardian angel", Lancashire Evening Post, May 29, 2017


Time travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress.

JOANNA BAILLIE

attributed, Day's Collacon