Time

:For alternate uses of "time", see Time (disambiguation) or see TIME (magazine).

Quotations

"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..." - Sheik

Related Topics:
Flow - Cruel - Change - Memory - Sheik

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"Time is an illusion." - Albert Einstein

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"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Related Topics:
Illusion - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"What is time? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I know not." - Augustine of Hippo

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"Time is what keeps the light from reaching us." - Meister Eckhart

Related Topics:
Light - Meister Eckhart

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"Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time." - Michael Ende

Related Topics:
Mystery - Michael Ende

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"Time is the accident of accidents." - Epicurus

Related Topics:
Accident - Epicurus

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"Truth is always new, therefore timeless." - J. Krishnamurti

Related Topics:
Truth - Time - J. Krishnamurti

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"I confess I do not believe in time." - Vladimir Nabokov

Related Topics:
Believe - Vladimir Nabokov

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"We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual." - Paul Ricoeur

Related Topics:
Cosmological - Biological - Historical - Individual - Paul Ricoeur

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"Nature's Time is Cubic and perpetual. Linear Time is wrong and suicidal." - Gene Ray

Related Topics:
Cubic - Gene Ray

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This thing all things devours:{{-}}

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Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;{{-}}

Related Topics:
Birds - Beast - Tree - Flower

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Gnaws iron, bites steel, {{-}}

Related Topics:
Iron - Steel

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Grinds hard stones to meal; {{-}}

Related Topics:
Stone - Meal

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Slays king, ruins town,{{-}}

Related Topics:
King - Town

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And beats high mountain down.

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:- Riddle about time by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Related Topics:
Riddle - J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

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"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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Space is what prevents everything from happening to me." - attributed to John Archibald Wheeler

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"Time reflexes like a whore/falls wanking to the floor." - David Bowie "Time"

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"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (by the man in the shack)

Related Topics:
Fiction - Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn." Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) from "For Rhoda"

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"Remember that time is money." Benjamin Franklin 'Advice to a Young Tradesman',

Related Topics:
Money - Benjamin Franklin

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"Time is the effect of existence and the measure of our world." - Mark F. Herron

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"Time is an abstract concept created by carbon-based life-forms to monitor their ongoing decay." - Thunderclese

Related Topics:
Abstract - Concept - Life-forms - Decay - Thunderclese

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"Time is an arrow." - science fiction author Harlan Ellison, asserting his belief that time travel is impossible.

Related Topics:
Science fiction - Harlan Ellison - Time travel

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"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" - Groucho Marx

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