I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Quotes
A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814We 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, 1847Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810If 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 BCTime, 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, 1905The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922