time's flow Quotes

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

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

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.