Concept Of Time Quotes

• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Past, Gone

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264

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• Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

  Robert Lanza

  Mean, Linear, Concepts

  "What Is It Like After You Die?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Past, Stopping

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Wish, Ask Me

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2011). “Confessions”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The concept of time shuts off eternity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eternity, Concepts

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

  Paracelsus

  Time, Wind, Design

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• For time is the longest distance between two places.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Distance, Two

  The Glass Menagerie (1945) p. 123

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Men, Law

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• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sleep, Wind

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected with Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.134

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Journey, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.185

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• The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

  Tillie Olsen

  Time, Scary, Scared

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Opportunity, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.292

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