TIME QUOTES III
quotations about time
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Time will explain.
JANE AUSTEN
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Persuasion
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Change of days
To us is sensible; and each revolve
Of the recording sun conducts us on
Farther in life, and nearer to our goal
Not so with Time--mysterious chronicler,
He knoweth not mutation--centuries
Are to his being as a day, and days
As centuries--Time past, and Time to come
Are always equal: when the world began
God had existed from eternity.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex
Time has always been a vast ocean. Last week is more remote than Alpha Centauri.
ROBERT REED
interview, Lightspeed, March 2011
As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment--right now--is what is happening. The present moment feels special. It is real. However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you life in the present. Of course, the moment during which you read that sentence is no longer happening. This one is. In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior. How we live our lives hangs on it. Yet as natural as this way of thinking is, you will not find it reflected in science. The equations of physics do not tell us which events are occurring right now--they are like a map without the "you are here" symbol. The present moment does not exist in them, and therefore neither does the flow of time.
CRAIG CALLENDER
Scientific American, June 2010
Oh how weak
Is mortal man! how trifling--how confined
His scope of vision! Puff'd with confidence,
His phrase grows big with immortality,
And he, poor insect of a summer's day!
Dreams of eternal honours to his name;
Of endless glory and perennial bays.
He idly reasons of eternity,
As of the train of ages--when, alas!
Ten thousand thousand of his centuries
Are, in comparison, a little point
Too trivial for recount.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
"Time passes!" Men in fond delusion say.
"No!" Time demurs; "'tis men that pass away."
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
"Man and Time"
To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Time speaks, and all is hush'd.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.
ALFRED SUTRO
The Open Door
As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN
The Organized Mind
Where's the man, where's the child
Wrapped together side by side.
Who can tell you what to do,
When Mr. Time has come for you.
See the truth, hear the lies,
Can there be no compromise
And who can tell you what they knew,
When Mr. Time has come for you.
THE ALAN PARSON PROJECT
"Mr. Time"
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible.
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
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.
GLEN DUNCAN
I, Lucifer
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right,
To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,
And smear with dust their glittering golden towers;
To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,
To feed oblivion with decay of things,
To blot old books and alter their contents,
To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings,
To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,
To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,
And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;
To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water drops.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Rape of Lucrece
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNE
Book of Devotions
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
J. M. COETZEE
In the Heart of the Country
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
SUSAN GLASPELL
"Tickless Time"
It's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Blindness