quotations about time
The ancients painted time in the form of an old man with a large tuft of hair on his forehead, but bald behind, to teach us, that, if we catch him not as he comes, it will be impossible after he has passed by.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
MACKEY MILLER
Mouse Attack 5!!!
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"
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"
Pass on, ever on, O Time! ush'ring in
New joys, new aspirations, and new life.
WATIE W. SWANZY
"Time"
Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
TANITH LEE
Delirium's Mistress
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"Averroes' Search"
All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Day's Ration
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Deerslayer
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
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
AESCHYLUS
Eumenides
Time -- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
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
Time admits no argument.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN
The Magic Mountain
Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Time: the whisper beneath that word is death.
JAMES BALDWIN
Just Above My Head
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
STEPHEN HAWKING
A Brief History of Time