Quotes about Time
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
- Mark Twain
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
- Cicero
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
- Albert Einstein
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
- Amy Grant
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
- CS Lewis
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
- CS Lewis
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
- CS Lewis
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
- CS Lewis
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
- Carl Jung