TIME QUOTES XIII

quotations about time

The fluid cradle of events (time).

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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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 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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Pick an apocalypse, any apocalypse. A sea of black oil and dead things. No wind. No light. Nothing stirring, not even an ant, a spider. A silent universe. Such is the end of the flicker of time, the brief, hot fuse of events and ideas set off, accidentally, and snuffed out, accidentally, by man. Not a real ending of course, nor even a beginning. Mere ripple in Time's stream.

JOHN GARDNER

Grendel

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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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Time is the chrysalis of eternity.

RICHTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Time goes, you say? ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.

GREGORY BENFORD

Furious Gulf

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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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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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Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

attributed, Thoughts Moral and Divine


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

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard II

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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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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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Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

ISAAC MCLELLAN

"Musings"

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

JACK GILBERT

"Burning (Andante Non Troppo)"


Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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Time, that aged nurse,
Rocked me to patience.

JOHN KEATS

Endymion

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