Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601
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Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820