Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Quotes
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975We 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.
—Joseph Addison, 1711For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCOur allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCYears are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605