psychological time Quotes

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.

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 hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

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

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

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.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

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

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

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

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.

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

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

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.

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

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

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