Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Quotes
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910No 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, 1706This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCTime rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962