TIME QUOTES VI
quotations about time
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
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars
We grasp at Time, but cannot hold
One minute of his treasured hour;
He tarries not, though oft we pray
That he will rest in youth's bright bower.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Time's Ravages"
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
CESARE PAVESE
"Morning Star over Calabria"
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.
SEAN M. CARROLL
Scientific American, June 2008
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAY
Man's Search for Himself
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"
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
FRANK HERBERT
Children of Dune
Time sure kicks the shit out of people.
DAN SIMMONS
Lovedeath
Time is the best critic.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was"--that is the name of the stone it cannot roll.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
How unthinking must those unhappy persons be, who make it a common excuse for idle and pernicious amusements, that they do it to kill Time.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Time depends on the position of the observer and the direction in which he looks.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Who shall contend with time--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation?
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Onion Girl
Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Time is the best avenger.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Life Is Too Short"