Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975