Time Quotes - Page 29

• I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

  James Joyce

  Glasses, Flames, Space

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Onward and sublime
  Will ever glide
  The silent stream of Time,
  That bears us on its tide.

  Harvey Rice

  Sublime, Tides, Bears

  Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.22

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Art

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• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

  Insomnia, Men, Age

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.29.

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• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

  Susan Glaspell

  Clock, Standards, Standardization

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”

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• The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Work, Science

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Watches, Tilt

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• Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Years, Months, Fly Away

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Fate, Literature, Terrible

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• My father Time is weak and gray
  With waiting for a better day;
  See how idiot-like he stands,
  Fumbling with his palsied hands!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Father, Hands, Waiting

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

  John Fowles

  Perfect, Humanity, Lightning

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  People, Age, Tools

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• Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Looks, Consciousness, Found

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.210, Penguin

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• In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

  Alan Lightman

  Kissing, Circles, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.11, Vintage

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• Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

  James Joyce

  Ruins, Eternity, Mansions

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.910, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Learning, Tasks, May

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• Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Flower

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Kings, Politician, Cardinals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sea, Floats

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• Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Mind, Shifting, Sand

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.175, Random House

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political Language, Defense

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Children, Humorous, Eye

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Learning, Usual, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Numbers, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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