Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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No 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, 1706In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992We 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, 1847