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Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark — a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.
Robert Graves1895–1985“Sick Love,” lines 7–12, from Poems 1929
- Life & Death
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it’s probably best to avoid eye contact.
JHJack Handeyborn 1949
- Jack Handey
Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022“Returning Home”, Shambhala Sun (March 2006)
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the First: The Maiden, Chapter VIn context
- Love
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 147
- Science
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom’s Day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864“Wakefield” (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
- Youth
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 43
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book I, Chapter 2In context
- Life & Death
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Experience
No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.
Frank Herbert1920–1986Dune Genesis (1980)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick1591–1674To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)In context
- Youth
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod776–700 BCWorks and Days (c. 700 BC), Line 694
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), p. 97In context
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo354–430XI, 14