Time Quotes

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

“A photograph is an interruption in the flow of time.”

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity is here.”

“What Horace says is, Eheu fugaces Anni labuntur, Postume, Postume!”

“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”

“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”

“Nae man can tether time or tide.”

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”

“The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.”

“For the river of life, through the vale of existence, Flows against us, and always flows sullen and slow; But the river of death, in its rapid resistance, Flows faster and faster the nearer we go.”

“The best evidence we have of the past is our memories. But memories are neurological states in the present.”

“Another year is gone; a traveller's shade on my head, straw sandals on my feet.”

“Everything takes longer than you think.”

“For the historian, everything begins and ends with time.”

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“The body is a device for measuring time.”