quotations about time
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
JAMES THURBER
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The 13 Clocks
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
Time, that aged nurse.
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"Averroes' Search"
Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN
The Magic Mountain
Pass on, ever on, O Time! ush'ring in
New joys, new aspirations, and new life.
WATIE W. SWANZY
"Time"
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
All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Day's Ration
Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Time puts out all other flames
But the glory of his eyes;
His are all the sacred names,
His the solemn mysteries.
Crown him! In his darkest day,
He has heaven to give away!
CAROLINE SPENCER
"The Royal Name"
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
attributed, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Time is a limited commodity and each of us has 24 hours per day. Once you invest that time, it is irretrievable.
SUSAN MURPHY
"'No' Is A Complete Sentence", Forbes, February 20, 2017
Onward and sublime
Will ever glide
The silent stream of Time,
That bears us on its tide.
HARVEY RICE
"The Stream of Time"
Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
TANITH LEE
Delirium's Mistress
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Time will unfold its leaves.
GLEN COOK
Warlock
Normal people experience time as a flow, an infinite cascade of falling dominos, a chain of cause-and-effect events that neither leaps forward several moments nor suddenly reverses, but rather passes with the predictable click-click-click of now moments falling into the next with a steady cadence.
DEREK THOMPSON
"A Brief Economic History of Time", The Atlantic, December 21, 2016
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, The Great Book Of Best Quotes Of All Time
Stealing a moment from Mr. Time
He rocks in his chair like a shiny dime
But it's all for show, all for show.
Wearing your name and a number or two
When the minute's up, so are you
But everybody knows, everybody knows.
THE ALAN PARSON PROJECT
"Mr. Time"