Perceived Time Quotes

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.

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.

I haven't had the time to find the time too long.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

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

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

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I would like to warn you against the mistake that causes people to advance the hands of their clocks, thinking that thereby they are hastening the passage of time