quotations about time
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Theses on the Philosophy of History
Time is an impartial distributor.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON
Creative Evolution
The end we know not; but we wander on,
Down the regretful wilderness of time.
HENRY ABBEY
"Emmanuel"
The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
The Way of Ecben
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
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
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 travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress.
JOANNA BAILLIE
attributed, Day's Collacon