Quotes About Time

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus...

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .

The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make the wars. Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945

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You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man-- that it is an unnatural state -- will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end...

To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.

But God doesn't change." "Men do, though." "What difference does that make?" "All the difference in the world

One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon;

Bernard consideraba que el Golf Electromagnético era una pérdida de tiempo. —Pues, ¿para qué es el tiempo, si no?

I hope you slept well, he said. Yes, isn't it lovely? Jenny replied, giving two rapid little nods. But we had such awful thunderstorms last week. Parallel straight lines, Denis reflected, meet only at infinity. He might talk for ever of care-charmer sleep and she of meteorology till the end of time. Did one ever establish contact with anyone? We are all parallel straight lines. Jenny was only a little more parallel than most. They

Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.

Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkles and softens the body while it still lives, rots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.

of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book.

El viaje transcurrió sin el menor incidente. El Cohete Azul del Pacífico llegó a Nueva Orleáns con dos minutos y medio de anticipación

But God doesn't change. Men do, though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world.