Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Quotes
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCNothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Time, 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, 1905Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThis is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCI’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000