Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Quotes
There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCOur allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCTime rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601We 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, 1847Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820No 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.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706