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

—Simone Weil, 1947

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

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

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

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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

—Charles Lamb, 1810

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

—John Berger, 1984

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

—Novalis, c. 1798

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

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

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

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

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

—Ben Jonson, 1601

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