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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
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)In context
- Life & Death
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Nature
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies1871–1940Leisure (1911)In context
- Life & Death
Time like an ever-rolling stream
Bears all its Sons away;
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Isaac Watts1674–1748O God, Our Help in Ages Past (1719)In context
- Life & Death
The truth, for time alone reveals the just;
A villain is detected in a day.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by CreonIn context
- Justice
- Truth & Lies
When thus I hail the Moment flying:
“Ah, still delay⁠—thou art so fair!”
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
My final ruin then declare!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by FaustIn context
- Happiness
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 30 (1609)In context
- Thinking
It avails not, time nor place⁠—distance avails not,
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
Walt Whitman1819–1892Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856)In context
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene V, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Life & Death
“No, no! The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IXIn context
- Comedy
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Change
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIn context
- Nature
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On TimeIn context
- Love