Time Quotes
The sourced entries here are an odd mix: Edmund Burke on planning the future by the past (1791), Rollo May on learning to live in the present (1953), and a line about death from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) that turns up on several pages because it fits more than one. Shakespeare leads the page by a wide margin, with T. S. Eliot a distant second.
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” is credited to Groucho Marx almost everywhere and is flagged. No citation to Marx has been found. It first appears in the mid-1960s, unattributed, in logic and computing texts, as an example of why machines find ordinary sentences hard to parse.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past.
You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind.
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.
Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time;
Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime.