Browse 11715 quotes about Time.
“E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
That Time upon her angel brow should set
His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.”
Source: The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems
“Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.”
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.”
Source: Plays
“Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.”
Source: Table-talk
“There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away!”
“For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.”
“Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.”
“One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.”
Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
“Time, that aged nurse,
Rocked me to patience.”
Source: The poetical works of John Keats
“There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.”
Source: Poems
“Only time conquers time and its burdens.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.”
“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.”
“Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!”
“Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.”
Source: The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa... Etc. Performed in the Year 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh, Knt... Reprinted from the Edition of 1596, with Some Unpublished Documents Relative to that Country. Ed., with Copious Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk
“Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.”
Source: The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems
“Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“O time! swift devourer of all created things!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.”
Source: Thoughts
“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.”
“Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”
“Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.”
“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.”
Source: Children of Dune
“Time is the best avenger.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!”
Source: Lady chatterleys lover
“Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.”
“Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.”
“Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“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.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.”
Source: Plays
“One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
Source: Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes
“Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”
Source: Ulysses
“All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?”
Source: The claw of the conciliator
“Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.”
“Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.”
Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel
“How Time doth lash us with sharp pains,
Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes --
And finally bend our backs toward earth
To find the fittest place for burial.”
Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight