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

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947

We 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

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

Time, 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, 1905

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

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.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987