Quotes about time
261 quotes from 169 people
Virgil70–19 BCEclogues (37 BC), Book IX, line 51The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibsonborn 1948“The Science in Science Fiction”, Talk of the Nation, NPR (30 November 1999)Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Sophocles496–406 BCFrg. 301 TrGF (Bartlett’s, 9th ed., 1892)So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod776–700 BCWorks and Days (c. 700 BC), Line 694
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 207- Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 296
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book XV, 234
William Faulkner1897–1962Requiem for a Nun (1951)The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Other Inquisitions (1952)
Aeschylus525–456 BCPrometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
John Milton1608–1674On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629), Hymn, stanza 14, line 135
