Quotes About Time

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. —Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Message

Mad Dog hasn't spent much time in the dormitory and seems to do a lot of hunting.

Mighty as Gaea was, she had seen better days.

How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?

It could very well be that if a grandfather paradox really gets going and history from the point of the twonky forward starts to come unglued... ...we all softly and suddenly vanish away. Not just you and me, but the Sun, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri and the Andromeda Galaxy. And so forth. This is known as the Cosmic Disgust Theory. Or: "If you're going to play games like that, I'll take my marbles and go home. Signed, God.

Procrastinate later.

From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later.

The 20-year rule says that if it won't matter in 20 years, it doesn't matter now.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last maker of history swallows all previous history down. - The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.

Burning daylight

As we live in an insane world major, maybe it's time we gave insane solutions a chance.

There's a lot of things great about life. But I thin tomorrow is the most important thing. It comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

We're burnin' daylight.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.