Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

Time is bunk.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

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.

Every white man seemed to have a great concern about time. We enjoyed time, they measured it…. Hours, minutes, and seconds were such small divisions of time that we never thought of them.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

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

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

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

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

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

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

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

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

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. 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 life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

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.

No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one holy instant-just as the creationists have said. And...it came about through a process of evolution taking billions and billions of what you call years, just as the evolutionists claim. They are both "right." As the cosmonauts discovered, it all depends on how you look at it.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them