time - quotes

(Publius) Vergilius (Maro), 70 BC-19 BC

was a classical Roman poet

Time flees, eternity dwells.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

was an US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, and printer

You may delay, but time will not.

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

was an US Transcendentalist author

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

( “Walden; or, Life in the Woods”, 1854 )

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

was an US novelist

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

( “Slaughterhouse-Five”, 1969 )

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910

was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

was a French poet

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.