Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

If 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.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

We 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.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.