Quotes about time
261 quotes from 169 people
Thornton Wilder1897–1975The Eighth Day (1967)Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Tennessee Williams1911–1983“The Timeless World of a Play”, introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)You can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willisborn 1955US Magazine. Issue 249.Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74eThe present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959The Living City (1958)
Howard Zinn1922–2010A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.