There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCQuotes
The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605We 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, 1711Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCI’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCDo not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCThis is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910