TIME QUOTES XIII

quotations about time

Time has ghosts. That's what time is: the ghost of every instant passed, haunting the potential of every moment to come.

TIM LEBBON

Fears Unnamed

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Time, that aged nurse,
Rocked me to patience.

JOHN KEATS

Endymion

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Time is but the ante-chamber to eternity.

SUSANNAH MOODIE

Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers


Time is the chrysalis of eternity.

RICHTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

"Of Time", Cloudrifts at Twilight


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.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


Time commences with mutable things; if they perish, it perishes with them.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Well, ultimately nothing lasts. Everything is temporal, but some things last longer than others.

WALTER BARGEN

Riverfront Times, September 29, 2009

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By the 1930s, wristwatches were the norm and the pocket watch was an anachronism. Time, itself, had become a human appendage.

DEREK THOMPSON

"A Brief Economic History of Time", The Atlantic, December 21, 2016


No preacher is listened to but time; which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have tried in vain to put into our heads.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"Thoughts on Various Subjects", The Works of Jonathan Swift

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

HORACE

Odes

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We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed.

JACK GILBERT

"Burning (Andante Non Troppo)"


Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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It seems to be not the vast things, but the immense multitude of little, like insects in a forest, which eat up the fruit of time.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,
That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

T. S. ELIOT

"The Dry Salvages", Four Quartets

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Time seemed wormholed and faulted, honeycombed in mazes that crossed and recrossed.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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The fluid cradle of events (time).

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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