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Religious literature

The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 1.3

Time bears away all things, even our minds.

Eclogues · 30 BC

★ 1.3

There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

1682

★ 1.8

Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

1917

★ 1.8

For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.8

Historical literature

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

1934

★ 1.8

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

The Way of Zen · 1957

★ 1.8

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 1.9

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters · 1688

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

1794

★ 1.9

Poem · Narrative poem

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.0

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Albert Einstein

1955

★ 2.0

Film · Western (film) · Western

Time just gets away from us.

40-Year-Old Mattie Ross

True Grit · 2010

★ 2.0

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 2.0

Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time.

Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives · 100

★ 2.1

Historical literature

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.1

Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.1

Time, the subtle thief of youth.

1645

★ 2.1

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Calvin and Hobbes · 1988

★ 2.1

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