Time

"Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting."

"The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly."

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

"Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend."

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

"The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored."

"the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."

"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas."

"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."

"Punctuality is the thief of time"

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

"Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"Time will explain."

"I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal."

"Time's the thief of memory"

"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."

"Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed."

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life"