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Since then ‘t is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Because I could not stop for Death (1890)In context
- Life & Death
Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities…
Denis Diderot1713–1784Salon of 1767 (1798), Oeuvres esthétiques
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Sybil (1845), Book I, Chapter 2.
What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part I, Chapter VIn context
- Life & Death
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933Time Is
- Love
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
Jonathan Edwards1703–1758Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723), No. 5.
- Motivation & Goals
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Besso’s family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”, p. 193
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
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
1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘Annus Horribilis’.
Elizabeth II1926–2022Speech at the Guildhall, London, on the 40th anniversary of her accession (24 November 1992)
The days … come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Works and Days
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Works and Days
- Happiness