Susan Glaspell Quotes

Our bodies are the time machine.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Every white man seemed to have a great concern about time. We enjoyed time, they measured it…. Hours, minutes, and seconds were such small divisions of time that we never thought of them.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

What business does memory have with time?

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.