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“The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.”
“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in ...”
“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.”
“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the e...”
“What was the constant?Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. H...”
“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here ...”
“Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would pr...”
“Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.”
“Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”
“Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.”
“What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.”
“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”
“Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.”
“In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, will belong to the past. But now is not too late. Now he must do something”
“Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it’s everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.”
“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”
“Time takes it all in the end...”
“Time is like a raging bull … if you dare to hold it from the horns, you can ride it forever, but if in case you do not dare, you will be trailing behind holding from its tail.”
“A wise woman invests her time and doesn’t squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.”
“You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.”He remained firm....”
