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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Against the Day (2006), p. 622
- Life & Death
I’ve seen the future, and it’s much like the present⁠—only longer.
Dan Quisenberry1953–1998
As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they’re all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do.
Rob Reiner1947–2025“Rob Reiner on his favorite films, and why he changed the ending of ‘When Harry Met Sally…’”, A.V. Club (September 3, 2016).
- Age
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 167
- Wisdom
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense, This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:
- Education
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965On the Edge of the Primeval Forest (1922), Ch. XI: Conclusion (1956 edition)
- Truth & Lies
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Walter Scott1771–1832The Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto III, stanza 1.
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
- Life & Death
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
Like as the waves make towards
the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 60 (1609)In context
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1606), Act I, scene iii.In context
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context
- Responsibility