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.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
It may be that in the future you will be helped by remembering the past.
Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return.
Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.