For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCQuotes
Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820They 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. 620The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951