Quotes About Time

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins. ("New York Blues")

I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.

Tattoo the pristine flesh What is permanent anyway? This ink only lasts 'til the grave, Time will decompose That which we did compose.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

One thing was for sure: time didn't heal all wounds. Some were still every bit as fresh as the day they were inflicted.

Time shrinks when it's not paid attention to.

seeing him there served as a well-placed reminder that life was short and people were what mattered most.

Don't let the precious moments pass you by, Cam. Take snapshots in your mind. Seal them in good and tight. These are the things you'll carry with you. These are the moments that will keep you young.

Time doesn't heal all wounds. Time gives you distance and perspective. The time we had wasn't enough, but it wasn't nothing. I lived twenty-two amazing years as their son. And that was a gift.

I glance at the line. It's moving as fast as a sloth on Benadryl.

The past is a foreign country -- and increasingly I don't want to visit.

if the Now moves, it must move with respect to time. But the Now is time. So is it moving with respect to itself? No, says Williams, that doesn't make sense. If it's moving, it must be moving with respect to a second time – the second one being the time with respect to which the first one moves. Tensers

Aristotle (384–322 BC), the Greek philosopher, held that time is simply the measure of motion. Time is the measure of one physical process against another.

the past, present and future all exist but not at the same times. In

By 1800 BC, the ancient Babylonians had divided the day into hours, the hour into sixty minutes, and the minute into sixty seconds.

what's done is done", that the past cannot be changed, and that the future can be changed because it is "open". To

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.