The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Quotes
Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910