TIME QUOTES XVII

quotations about time

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The Sound and the Fury

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Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

STEPHEN KING

The Wind through the Keyhole


My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The Mask of Anarchy

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Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before.

JOHN DRYDEN

Tyrannic Love

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Time, so complain'd of,
Who to no one man
Shows partiality,
Brings round to all men
Some undimm'd hours.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"Consolation"


One must work with time and not against it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO

The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

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Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

interview, Words with Writers, December 5, 2011

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It rolls in grandeur lone--
The stream of Time;
And on its shores lie strown
The wrecks of every clime.

HARVEY RICE

"The Stream of Time"


Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams


Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

T. S. ELIOT

"Burnt Norton", Four Quartets


We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Time means less than the color of zero.

RAVEN GREGORY

Alice in Wonderland, issue #1, January 2012


Time is the root of all this earth;
These creatures, who from Time had birth,
Within his bosom at the end
Shall sleep; Time hath nor enemy nor friend.

BHARTRHARI

"Time"

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Time is the father of mutability.

SOLON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Time is an impartial distributor.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Time is the longest distance between two places.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Glass Menagerie

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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Theses on the Philosophy of History

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