quotations about time
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
Notice: Undefined variable: id in /hermes/walnacweb03/walnacweb03ak/b2149/pow.notablequote/htdocs/t/includes/quoter_subj.php on line 37
letter to August Derleth, November 21, 1930
How quickly the time goes as the season advances, the earth hurtling along its groove into the years's sharply descending final arc.
JOHN BANVILLE
The Sea
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
JAMES THURBER
The 13 Clocks
All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Day's Ration
Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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
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
Pass on, ever on, O Time! ush'ring in
New joys, new aspirations, and new life.
WATIE W. SWANZY
"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"
Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"Averroes' Search"
Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
TANITH LEE
Delirium's Mistress
Onward and sublime
Will ever glide
The silent stream of Time,
That bears us on its tide.
HARVEY RICE
"The Stream of 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"
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
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 is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Science and Human Values
Time will unfold its leaves.
GLEN COOK
Warlock
Time admits no argument.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims