Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987