Time Understanding Quotes

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

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.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Booking travel is not like shopping or groceries or booking a restaurant. It's much less frequent, so understanding what works just takes a lot more time.

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.