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

—Ben Jonson, 1601

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

—Jane Austen, 1814

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

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

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

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

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

—Simone Weil, 1947

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

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

—Charles Lamb, 1810

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

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

—John Berger, 1984

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987