I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Quotes
In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCDo not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCTime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000We 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, 1847