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One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost1874–1963Acquainted with the Night, West-Running Brook (1928)In context
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Tombs
- Fame
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Signal to Noise (1992)
- Life & Death
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Basic Education (1951) p. 89
- Truth & Lies
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Change
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994), Children of Gods, Scions of Apes
I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931“Song of Man”, A Tear and a Smile (1914); tr. Juan Cole in The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
- Life & Death
Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On TimeIn context
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
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.
Mel Gibsonborn 1956
- Happiness
The 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)
- Technology
Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 789, trans. Stopp
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
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
Emma Goldman1869–1940My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924), Afterword
“People come⁠—they stay for a while, they flourish, they build⁠—and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I’ve been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be.”
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IVIn context
- Animals
- History