Quotes About Time

Lev Grossman

He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had.

Chop chop. I'm literally losing the will to live." —Eliot

Time was defined by change, and very little changed for a blue whale. He noticed everything but was concerned with nothing.

We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.

Time, that dull mechanism that usually reliably stamped out one second after another, like parts on a conveyor belt, erupted into a glorious melody.

When he counted his change, he found only coins from the year he was born.

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals.

Except it'll still be summer," Plum said. "Backward seasons.

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You

had only been at SUM a year

If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods and not of men. Ten lives would not suffice Aristotle to assimilate all the knowledge that has been accumulated on earth since his death, and Alexander would perhaps be able to realize his dream and conquer the world.

Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free, conscious idling that despises labour, this is one of the chief characteristics of our time.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.