Gloria Naylor Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

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.

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.

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.

Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

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

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.

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

These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.

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.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

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

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

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.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

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

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

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