TIME QUOTES XVII

quotations about time

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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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 a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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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"


Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before.

JOHN DRYDEN

Tyrannic Love

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O aching time! O moments big as years!

JOHN KEATS

"Hyperion: A Fragment"

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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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One must work with time and not against it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO

The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams


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"


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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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


Time is the longest distance between two places.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Glass Menagerie

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Time means less than the color of zero.

RAVEN GREGORY

Alice in Wonderland, issue #1, January 2012


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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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

ARISTOTLE

letter to Alexander on the policy toward the Cities

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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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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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