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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

—Charles Lamb, 1810

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.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

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

—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820

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

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

—Tennessee Williams, 1951

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

—Simone Weil, 1947

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

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

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

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

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

Years 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, 1911