O. Henry Quotes

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

Time has only a relative existence.

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

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

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

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

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

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

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

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

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

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

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 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.

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

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

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

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

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.