Quotes About Time

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

My soul is not a palace of the past...

And what is so rare as a day in June?Then, if ever, come perfect days.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

Time doesn't fly. It just never stops. And the next thing you know, it's now." --from "Diary of a Company Man

We live in snow globes, don't we? Pick them up, shake them, years swirl about us and settle.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

The day an organization realizes they've been hacked they'll hire a forensic team to analyze the network only to identify the reality that they were hacked months or years ago, they just didn't know it.

The illusion of time and space that has been introduced by those who want to commodities and monetize on the time and space of others.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more

One thing remains certain: as long as anxieties about racial, national, sexual, and religious difference continue to haunt the way we imagine ourselves and respond to others, Shakespeare's words will remain 'not of an age, but for all time.

Deeds grow old in a day and are buried in a night. New memories come crowding on old ones, and one must learn to forget as well as to remember.

A few years ago we discussed when Sabbath truly begins. When is the precise moment of the setting sun? So I made a rug weaving together black and deep purple. When the light faded enough, and one could no longer tell the difference between the two colors, then Sabbath had begun and prayers could be made.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, For it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.' – attributed to the ancient Herakleitos

He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.

He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

When a clock dies no one wakes.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.