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.
In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.
May I not so much be lost as would have
No time to look at myself
Ever.
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
I am the angel of reality,
Seen for a moment standing in the door.
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.
Time was the enemy never to be conquered and there were no reserves to help stay the tide.
Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.