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

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.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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

The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.

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

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.