Time Quotes - Page 39

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

  John Updike

  Love Life, Thieves, Stuff

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• On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

  James F. Cooper

  Long, Imagination, Important

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• Time is of your own making;
  Its clock ticks in your head.
  The moment you stop thought
  Time too stops dead.

  Angelus Silesius

  Moments, Tick, Clock

  Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.39, World Wisdom, Inc

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
  In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

  Philip James Bailey

  Years, Feelings, Deeds

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.85

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• Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.

  Alfred Sutro

  Law, Universe

  Alfred Sutro (1912). “The Open Door: A Duologue in One Act”

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• Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
  It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
  It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

  Conrad Aiken

  Dream, Wall, Dust

  Conrad Aiken (1920). “The House of Dust: A Symphony”

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• Time is a face on the water.

  Stephen King

  Water, Faces

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is but a phantom dagger
  That motion lifts to slay itself.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Daggers, Phantoms, Lifts

  Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

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• In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

  Charles de Lint

  Dark, Mind, Attics

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.124, Macmillan

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• E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
  That Time upon her angel brow should set
  His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
  Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
  The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
  Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

  Isaac McLellan

  Eye, Angel, Frost

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

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• Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  All Things

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.290

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• Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Eternity, Lackeys

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• Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

  Ken Kesey

  Wind, Spiders, Way

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.191, Penguin

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• A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

  Susan Glaspell

  Littles, Machines, Wonder

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

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• Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Fall, Apples, Perfect

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Son, Life And Death

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
  He speeds; we pass away!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Heaven, Passing Away

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “The Lake”

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• For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Decay, Problem, Horror

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• Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Moving, Book, Reading

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• One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

  J. M. Coetzee

  One Day, Machines, Clock

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.7, Penguin

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• There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

  Dean Koontz

  Doe

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.375, Bantam

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• Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

  Glen Duncan

  Creation, Property, Knows

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All substances the cunning chemist Time
  Melts down into that liquor of my life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Substance, Liquor, Cunning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• Only time conquers time and its burdens.

  Dean Koontz

  Conquer, Burden, Only Time

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.679, Bantam

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• The wings of Time are black and white,
  Pied with morning and with night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Black And White, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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