You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.
It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.
I think I was born out of my time.
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.