TIME QUOTES XVII

quotations about time

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


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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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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O aching time! O moments big as years!

JOHN KEATS

"Hyperion: A Fragment"

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Time wounds all heals.

TRACY LETTS

August: Osage County

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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"


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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Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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One must work with time and not against it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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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


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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"


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 ... 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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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams


Time means less than the color of zero.

RAVEN GREGORY

Alice in Wonderland, issue #1, January 2012


Time is the longest distance between two places.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Glass Menagerie

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Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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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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Time is the father of mutability.

SOLON

attributed, Day's Collacon