TIME QUOTES IV
quotations about time
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Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES
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Oedipus Rex
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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right,
To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,
And smear with dust their glittering golden towers;
To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,
To feed oblivion with decay of things,
To blot old books and alter their contents,
To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings,
To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,
To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,
And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;
To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water drops.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Rape of Lucrece
Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
U2
"Zoo Station"
Time is the vehicle that carries everything into nothing.
PAUL CHATFIELD
attributed, Day's Collacon
I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.
ELIF BATUMAN
The Idiot
The cancer of time is eating us away.
HENRY MILLER
Tropic of Cancer
All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?
GENE WOLFE
The Claw of the Conciliator
Man's most prudent counselor is time.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Time is a face on the water.
STEPHEN KING
Wolves of the Calla
It's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Blindness
Time's chariot-wheels make their ruts in the fairest face.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
The Little Prince
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSON
Autobiography of Red
One of the best gifts my parents gave us was not only this awareness of time but what they did with that time. And having that awareness of time is a very special kind of perspective. It shapes my every day.
NANCY BOROWICK
"The gift of time: Life before death", CNN, May 14, 2017
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed
Of millions, robber of the best
Which earth can give ...
AMY LOWELL
"New York at Night"
Without Time's swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Milton
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Compensation
Every step of the way we walk the line
Your days are numbered, so are mine
Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape
We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape
BOB DYLAN
"Mississippi"