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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

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, 1706

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

—Ben Jonson, 1601

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC

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

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962