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.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.