TIME QUOTES IV
quotations about time
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Time is the vehicle that carries everything into nothing.
PAUL CHATFIELD
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attributed, Day's Collacon
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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
I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.
ELIF BATUMAN
The Idiot
Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
U2
"Zoo Station"
Time is the great physician.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Endymion
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
The Little Prince
Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
Time's chariot-wheels make their ruts in the fairest face.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
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?
GENE WOLFE
The Claw of the Conciliator
One of the best gifts my parents gave us was not only this awareness of time but what they did with that time. And having that awareness of time is a very special kind of perspective. It shapes my every day.
NANCY BOROWICK
"The gift of time: Life before death", CNN, May 14, 2017
Man's most prudent counselor is time.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
BOB DYLAN
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The cancer of time is eating us away.
HENRY MILLER
Tropic of Cancer
Without Time's swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Milton
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed
Of millions, robber of the best
Which earth can give ...
AMY LOWELL
"New York at Night"
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Time is a face on the water.
STEPHEN KING
Wolves of the Calla
Every step of the way we walk the line
Your days are numbered, so are mine
Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape
We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape
BOB DYLAN
"Mississippi"
The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Compensation