Frederick Wiseman Quotes

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.

Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

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.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Life is short, but the years are long.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?