Quotes About Time

The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories.

But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?

Each day blended into the next, and the day past was blurred into the timelessness of the present.

I don't think man is blessed with memory. More often he is cursed with it. I have too many memories.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

Between the conception of the idea of this special relativity theory and the completion of the corresponding publication, there elapsed five or six weeks. But it would be hardly correct to consider this as a birth date, because earlier the arguments and building blocks were being prepared over a period of years, although without bringing about the fundamental decision.

all our knowledge, both of time and space, is essentially relative....Position we must evidently acknowledge to be relative, for we cannot describe the position of a body in any terms which do not express relation....There are no landmarks in space; one portion of space is exactly like every other portion....We are, as it were, on an unruffled sea.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving.

People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.

My favorite book title ever is Ross Thomas' THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR SIDE. Good book too as I recall read it a long time ago but Ross Thomas is consistently good.

Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?

The implied premise of this passage is that life must be everlasting to be meaningful, but there is no obvious reason for thinking that. Why not draw the opposite conclusion—that the fact that life is short is our motivation for filling it with meaning? If we are keenly aware of "time's wingéd chariot,

then had to decide which two-to-three-hour (with luck) block of time I could spend at the DMV. Waits at the DMV are shorter in the morning, and I hate standing in long lines or sitting in uncomfortable chairs next to people with screaming babies, so I opted to go some morning. I couldn't do it Monday morning because I had papers to grade. Tuesday I had to be teaching off campus all day. Wednesday there were faculty meetings and committee meetings

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed.

Personality is by nature incongruous, being a product of time. Time, at any given moment, tends to obscure this.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

any given moment can suddenly fill you with a sense of elegiac anticipation.

We don't often remember our lives in original chronologies, do we? More in associative patterns

Old is beautiful, but not if it is neglected.—Aldo Lorenzi, That Shop in Via Montenapoleone

Christ reaches to all people everywhere in all time, space, heaven, and hell.

It is utterly fantastic to assume that Jesus grew to manhood untouched by the surging currents of the common life that made up the climate of Palestine. Not only must he have been aware of them; that he was affected by them is a most natural observation. A word of caution is urgent at this point. To place Jesus against the background of his time is by no means sufficient to explain him. Who can explain a spiritual genius—or any kind of genius, for that matter?

Sometimes there is only a sixty-second divide between youth and maturity, childhood and adulthood, strength and weakness, life and death. That life is vulnerable is the key to its longevity.