TIME QUOTES VIII

quotations about time

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

ZONA GALE

"Miggy"

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Only time conquers time and its burdens.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


Time cleanses what it touches over time.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides


One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat--especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

letter to August Derleth, November 21, 1930

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So much of what we now call time is a collective myth, devised by emperors, industrialists, protesters, and tinkerers.

DEREK THOMPSON

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


He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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Oh, thou divinest healer Time
And thing sublime!
That thou should'st gladly life's lorn nest
Anew invest,
And set before the eyes of man
A deeper purpose, holier plan,
And gently bridge the abysmal span,
'Twixt earth and rest!

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Oh, Thou Inexorable Grief"

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So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

"Bearded Oaks"

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Time, that aged nurse.

JOHN KEATS

Endymion


The end of time is the birthday of Eternity.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?

SAMUEL BECKETT

Waiting for Godot

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Time treads down empires.

DUGALD MOORE

"To the Moon"

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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

JAMES THURBER

The 13 Clocks

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O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

T. S. ELIOT

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A New Refutation of Time", Other Inquisitions

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Men have contrived instruments to measure the motion of time, but they have no scales to weigh, no figures to compute, no words to describe its value.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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Make good use of Time ... reflect that yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured, today is only yours, which if you procrastinate you lose.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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