Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

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

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

One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

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

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

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.

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

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.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

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

Age affects how people experience time.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

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.

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.