Quotes about time
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Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Aeschylus525–456 BCPrometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939Cat’s Eye (1988)
Marcus Aurelius121–180VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth)- Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book IV, 23
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Richard Bachborn 1936The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 46
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Eugénie Grandet (1833), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. VI
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 3
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), VTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz1803–1869Letter written in November 1856, published in Pierre Citron (ed.) Correspondance générale (Paris: Flammarion, 1989) vol. 5, p. 390; Paul Davies About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 214.To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
