TIME QUOTES V

quotations about time

Time quote

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

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The history of timepieces is a history of empires.

DEREK THOMPSON

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


A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

ANNE CARSON

Autobiography of Red

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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"

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac


Time ripens all things.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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Time is a game played beautifully by children.

HERACLITUS

Fragments

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I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua

Tags: François Rabelais


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

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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

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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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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

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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

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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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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

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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune

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If you keep too busy to look at time you will not know that it is passing.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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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

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