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Quotes About Time

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.
~ William Shakespeare
Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.
~ William Blake, Milton a Poem
Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Time takes it all in the end...
~ Stephen King, A Good Marriage
Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.
~ Stephen King, Christine
For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
~ Albert Einstein
Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
~ Samuel Beckett, Proust
I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.
~ John Steinbeck
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear
A day is a miniature eternity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
~ Zig Ziglar
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
~ George Eliot
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
~ Dante Alighieri
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.
~ Emily Dickinson
Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
~ H. L. Mencken
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
~ Albert Einstein
Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
~ Horace