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Quotes About Time

I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.
~ Hassan Blasim
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
~ Heinrich Heine
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
~ Henri Bergson
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The cancer of time is eating us away
~ Henry Miller
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
~ Henry Miller
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~ Henry Rollins
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
~ Herb Caen
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
~ Herbert Spencer
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
~ Hermann Hesse
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
~ Hermann Hesse
Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.
~ Hilda Doolittle
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
~ Hiroyuki Sanada
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
~ Holly Johnson
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
~ Holly Lisle