Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

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.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

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

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

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 travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

Time is bunk.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

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.

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

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

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

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

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

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

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

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

The biggest change is that time just goes by so fast when you're on the road. It seems like it's only been a month or so since I've been back and it's already been more than half a year. I can't complain, though. I'm in a great spot right and it's up to me to take advantage of it while I can.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.