Quotes about Time

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am.

Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.

He had discovered Time and Death and God.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep —

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

But God doesn't change." "Men do, though." "What difference does that make?" "All the difference in the world