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
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 the father of mutability.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
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