TIME QUOTES V
quotations about time
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSON
Autobiography of Red
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
HERACLITUS
Fragments
The history of timepieces is a history of empires.
DEREK THOMPSON
"A Brief Economic History of Time", The Atlantic, December 21, 2016
Time ripens all things.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Time
Like a petal in the wind
Flows softly by
As old lives are taken
New ones begin
A continual chain
Which lasts throughout eternity
Every life but a minute in time
But each of equal importance
CINDY CHENEY
"Time"
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife.
THOMAS MANN
The Beloved Returns
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Fellowship of the Ring
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac
If you keep too busy to look at time you will not know that it is passing.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
Time does you this perverse service of expansion when all you've got to fill it with is horror.
GLEN DUNCAN
By Blood We Live
We spend too much time cursing time--time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don't think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.
ANNE RICE
The Wolves of Midwinter
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time
But from its loss. To give it then a tongue
Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke,
I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright,
It is the knell of my departed hours.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal.
MARTIN AMIS
Money
I shall soar and sing o'er the wrecks of Time.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"The Maiden's Lament to Her False Lover"
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"
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
CESARE PAVESE
"Morning Star over Calabria"
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars