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Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Art
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963“Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers (496),” December 5, 1961, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1961.
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (6 September 1960)
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (25 June 1963)
- Change
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Life & Death
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories, and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
- Ideas
Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself⁠—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 207
If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. When you have all the time in the world, you can spend it, not on going somewhere, but on being where you are.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 296
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Stephen Kingborn 1947The Green Mile (1996)
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And⁠—which is more⁠—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
- Character
- Men
Learn to use time, think of it as a friend, not an enemy. Don’t waste it in going after things you don’t want.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Power: How To Get It, How To Use It (1976)
I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.
John Lennon1940–1980Playboy interview (1980)
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXV
This moment contains all moments.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Great Divorce
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Ch. VI