quotations about time
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
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"Burnt Norton", Four Quartets
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON
Creative Evolution
It is said that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I'd like to believe that time is a companion that goes with us on a journey, reminds us to cherish every moment because they won't come again.
DARIA NEKLESA
"She was a guardian angel", Lancashire Evening Post, May 29, 2017
Time is an impartial distributor.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
The Way of Ecben
Time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
We do live and breathe,
And we are gone. The spoiler heeds us not.
We have our spring-time and our rottenness;
And as we fall, another race succeeds.
To perish likewise--Meanwhile Nature smiles--
The seasons run their round--The Sun fulfils
His annual course--and heaven and earth remain
Still changing, yet unchanged--still doom'd to feel
Endless mutation in perpetual rest.
Where are concealed the days which have elapsed?
Hid in the mighty cavern of THE PAST,
They rise upon us only to appal,
By indistinct and half-glimpsed images,
Misty, gigantic, huge, obscure, remote.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
"Time", The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.
JOHN SAUL
Midnight Voices
Time travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress.
JOANNA BAILLIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
E. L. DOCTOROW
Homer & Langley