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Not time to do very much.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Trouble with Lichen", "slug": "trouble-with-lichen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 41, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Trouble_with_Lichen_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "c9b62a05-bd27-4fb5-8534-835ac571b918", "slug": "if-life-werent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen/if-life-werent", "text": "\"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Wyndham", "slug": "john-wyndham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham" }, "book": { "title": "Trouble with Lichen", "slug": "trouble-with-lichen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/trouble-with-lichen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 80, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Trouble_with_Lichen_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:05" }, { "id": "22f108b5-5494-4281-899e-6e666187e1c9", "slug": "humans-are-a-timekeeping", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-shubin/the-universe-within/humans-are-a-timekeeping", "text": "Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Shubin", "slug": "neil-shubin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-shubin" }, "book": { "title": "The Universe Within", "slug": "the-universe-within", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-shubin/the-universe-within" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 60, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Shubin#The_Universe_Within:_The_Deep_History_of_the_Human_Body_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:03" }, { "id": "eb984e46-ee40-47e0-aed4-5760b7a63087", "slug": "they-all-sought-comfort", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/they-all-sought-comfort", "text": "They all...sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Hanya Yanagihara", "slug": "hanya-yanagihara", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara" }, "book": { "title": "A Little Life", "slug": "a-little-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hanya_Yanagihara#A_Little_Life_(2015_novel)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:58" }, { "id": "5d453b8d-f084-4adf-9bb6-5f15560691af", "slug": "but-time-i-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/the-people-in-the-trees/but-time-i-have", "text": "But time, I have come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs. 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Not by the means we perceive extension, relation, color, form — the qualities of Space. … No: but by the means we perceive duration and repetition and change: by Memory.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Crowley", "slug": "john-crowley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley" }, "book": { "title": "Little, Big", "slug": "little-big", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Little,_Big:_or,_The_Fairies'_Parliament_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" }, { "id": "0699da8e-6bab-4e3d-b0d1-ad40a299eb2f", "slug": "the-avaricious-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/the-avaricious-are", "text": "The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stefan Zweig", "slug": "stefan-zweig", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig" }, "book": { "title": "Beware of Pity", "slug": "beware-of-pity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "greed", "slug": "greed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig#Beware_of_Pity_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:29" }, { "id": "085dee3d-21cc-4fc1-bcd7-d3c58ddc39b4", "slug": "they-all-lived", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/they-all-lived", "text": "They all lived as ants in the shadow of mountains of millennia, and time’s sheer mass shaded every word.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gregory Benford", "slug": "gregory-benford", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford" }, "book": { "title": "Beyond Infinity", "slug": "beyond-infinity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 97, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "history", "slug": "history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Beyond_Infinity_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:25" }, { "id": "9dfef126-558b-44d4-9859-2dc85c3499fd", "slug": "you-never-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/you-never-know", "text": "\"You never know how much time you'll have.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "The Host", "slug": "the-host", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 80, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#The_Host_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:18" }, { "id": "4ee001ad-0788-43c8-b8d7-0958189f3dbc", "slug": "time-passes-even", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/time-passes-even", "text": "Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "New Moon", "slug": "new-moon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 93, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#New_Moon_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:16" }, { "id": "a5ca2422-d6b0-4c0b-99d0-04726341bc74", "slug": "it-is-a-peculiarity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cees-nooteboom/rituals/it-is-a-peculiarity", "text": "It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor. (Page 4)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cees Nooteboom", "slug": "cees-nooteboom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cees-nooteboom" }, "book": { "title": "Rituals", "slug": "rituals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cees-nooteboom/rituals" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "the past", "slug": "the-past", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cees_Nooteboom#Rituals_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:11" }, { "id": "f13243fa-675c-43ba-9a28-28ee3de80cbd", "slug": "the-decision-to-make", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/the-decision-to-make", "text": "The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now. Time is what the ego lives on. The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and you sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment. Fear, anxiety, expectation, regret, guilt, anger are the dysfunctions of the timebound state of consciousness.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "A New Earth", "slug": "a-new-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "the present", "slug": "the-present", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present" }, { "name": "ego", "slug": "ego", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ego" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_New_Earth#Chapter_7,_Finding_out_Who_You_Really_Are", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:04" }, { "id": "1515a6fb-097f-43cd-bb45-b1defe8788a3", "slug": "we-reckon-hours", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker/we-reckon-hours", "text": "We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "slug": "thomas-chandler-haliburton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton" }, "book": { "title": "The Clockmaker", "slug": "the-clockmaker", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-chandler-haliburton/the-clockmaker" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 10, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "money", "slug": "money", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Chandler_Haliburton#The_Clockmaker_(1838)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:50" }, { "id": "27f86640-d348-44aa-b524-f9dbf6b13ca9", "slug": "he-seems-very", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/he-seems-very", "text": "He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Salter", "slug": "james-salter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter" }, "book": { "title": "A Sport and a Pastime", "slug": "a-sport-and-a-pastime", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Salter#A_Sport_and_a_Pastime_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:48" }, { "id": "41bcebf5-ef20-47db-8e2e-ba0b7df32bdd", "slug": "time-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-tegmark/our-mathematical-universe/time-is-not", "text": "(…) time is not an illusion, but the flow of time is. 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But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last.\n\nOn the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior; which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Victor Hugo", "slug": "victor-hugo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo" }, "book": { "title": "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", "slug": "the-hunchback-of-notre-dame", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "stupidity", "slug": "stupidity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:22" }, { "id": "09e391a9-627b-4881-9c01-80afddc2ae54", "slug": "time-was-passing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/time-was-passing", "text": "Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. 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But forgetting is a fraught process, one that is prone to transcription errors and personality flaws. Delete the wrong pattern, and you can end up becoming someone else. Memories exhibit dependencies, and their management is one of the highest medical art forms.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Stross", "slug": "charles-stross", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross" }, "book": { "title": "Glasshouse", "slug": "glasshouse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 22, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "identity", "slug": "identity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Glasshouse_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:06" }, { "id": "df506579-4b35-4fb9-82d3-e9a93f66f5ec", "slug": "my-father-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten/my-father-always", "text": "My father always argued that time was far and away the most valuable commodity we had and that temporal profligacy should be a criminal offense—which kind of makes watching Celebrity Kidney Swap or reading Daphne Farquitt novels a crime straightaway.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jasper Fforde", "slug": "jasper-fforde", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde" }, "book": { "title": "Something Rotten", "slug": "something-rotten", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 96, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "television", "slug": "television", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/television" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#Something_Rotten_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:00" }, { "id": "741c371b-52a6-4ad9-ac20-64f534479c3a", "slug": "yakov-counted-he-counted", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud/the-fixer/yakov-counted-he-counted", "text": "Yakov counted. He counted time though he tried not to. Counting presupposed an end to counting, at least for a man who used only small numbers. How many times had he counted up to a hundred in his life? Who could count forever? – it piled time on. The fixer had torn some splinters off sticks of firewood. The long splinters were months, the short, days. A day was a bad enough burden of time but within the day even minutes could do damage as they piled up. When one had nothing to do the worst thing to have was an endless supply of minutes. 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What has been lost may yet live on in memories\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Paolini", "slug": "christopher-paolini", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini" }, "book": { "title": "Eragon", "slug": "eragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eragon#Brom", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:29" }, { "id": "74839870-e9c2-43df-91d8-1f875373c42d", "slug": "and-meanwhile-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/london-fields/and-meanwhile-time", "text": "And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and feel, like shit.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Martin Amis", "slug": "martin-amis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis" }, "book": { "title": "London Fields", "slug": "london-fields", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/london-fields" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Amis#London_Fields_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:12" }, { "id": "a864f9bd-edec-4a12-bf14-d13ec0a59d8f", "slug": "every-day-took", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man/every-day-took", "text": "Every day took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede. (p. 13)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Terry Pratchett", "slug": "terry-pratchett", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett" }, "book": { "title": "Reaper Man", "slug": "reaper-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reaper_Man#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:56" }, { "id": "9ab2abb8-6bc5-4f47-9545-c64911fdf45b", "slug": "in-the-hall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man/in-the-hall", "text": "In the hall of the house of Death is a clock with a pendulum like a blade but with no hands, because in the house of Death there is no time but the present. (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. It was just an older one.) 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Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Terry Pratchett", "slug": "terry-pratchett", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett" }, "book": { "title": "Wyrd Sisters", "slug": "wyrd-sisters", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/wyrd-sisters" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wyrd_Sisters#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:54" }, { "id": "baf14da9-54b6-49f0-8538-0b45ce009489", "slug": "the-most-important", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/slaughterhouse-five/the-most-important", "text": "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.\n\nWhen a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. 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It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. 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I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could've walked through the walls.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Peter S. 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We’ve just been moving along with time. We said, there’s another second gone, there’s another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Clifford D. 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Time was the great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. 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I had the feeling, which I have often had when talking with old people, that the words he said and the words I heard were quite different, that there was in his speech a hoard of hints, clues, and implications as invisible to me as his breath, as though Time were a species of white spirit who stood between us and with his trailing sleeves wiped away before I had heard it the greater part of all that was said.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gene Wolfe", "slug": "gene-wolfe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe" }, "book": { "title": "The Sword of the Lictor", "slug": "the-sword-of-the-lictor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-sword-of-the-lictor" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Sword_of_the_Lictor_(1982)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:24" }, { "id": "473505f1-ec79-4b91-b639-fb0f8ded8148", "slug": "i-felt-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/i-felt-that", "text": "I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gene Wolfe", "slug": "gene-wolfe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe" }, "book": { "title": "The Shadow of the Torturer", "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-torturer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "childhood", "slug": "childhood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23" }, { "id": "0f3d473b-d940-4414-a3ea-dafe162dfeb1", "slug": "it-is-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/it-is-said", "text": "It is said that it is the peculiar quality of time to conserve fact, and that it does so by rendering our past falsehoods true. 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Hamilton", "slug": "peter-f-hamilton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-f-hamilton" }, "book": { "title": "Misspent Youth", "slug": "misspent-youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-f-hamilton/misspent-youth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 236, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton#Misspent_Youth_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:56" }, { "id": "5bc01f43-cb4f-43db-ab9d-4252fd80a7bf", "slug": "o-lente-lente", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus/o-lente-lente", "text": "O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!\n\nThe stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,\n\nThe Devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.\n\nO, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?\n\nSee, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!\n\nOne drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Marlowe", "slug": "christopher-marlowe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe" }, "book": { "title": "Doctor Faustus", "slug": "doctor-faustus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus#Act_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:40" }, { "id": "3a1bfb8f-b820-400e-b538-5c6da6322e45", "slug": "now-hast-thou", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus/now-hast-thou", "text": "Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,\n\nAnd then thou must be damn'd perpetually!\n\nStand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,\n\nThat time may cease, and midnight never come;\n\nFair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make\n\nPerpetual day; or let this hour be but\n\nA year, a month, a week, a natural day,\n\nThat Faustus may repent and save his soul.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Marlowe", "slug": "christopher-marlowe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe" }, "book": { "title": "Doctor Faustus", "slug": "doctor-faustus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus#Act_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:40" }, { "id": "f0748782-72f1-44d0-9b46-7b57310a0810", "slug": "this-loving-person", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/this-loving-person", "text": "This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. 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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edward Abbey", "slug": "edward-abbey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey" }, "book": { "title": "The Journey Home", "slug": "the-journey-home", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/the-journey-home" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 205, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "travel", "slug": "travel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey#The_Journey_Home_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:31" }, { "id": "d5f358f3-72d5-48c9-adf5-b8aead9268da", "slug": "our-curse-as-humans", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/player-one/our-curse-as-humans", "text": "Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events — a story — and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Douglas Coupland", "slug": "douglas-coupland", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland" }, "book": { "title": "Player One", "slug": "player-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/player-one" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland#Player_One_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:28" }, { "id": "9b32a67a-c657-4cee-8229-a3a133449688", "slug": "personal-density-kurt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/gravitys-rainbow/personal-density-kurt", "text": "\"Personal density,\" Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, \"is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth.\"\n\n\"Temporal bandwidth,\" is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar \"∆ t\" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "thomas-pynchon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon" }, "book": { "title": "Gravity's Rainbow", "slug": "gravitys-rainbow", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/gravitys-rainbow" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon#Gravity's_Rainbow_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:19" }, { "id": "640e67ea-900f-4d0e-aa8d-e00ab8ffb762", "slug": "time-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/time-is-not", "text": "time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a sea on which you float.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Margaret Atwood", "slug": "margaret-atwood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood" }, "book": { "title": "The Year of the Flood", "slug": "the-year-of-the-flood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#The_Year_of_the_Flood_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:12" }, { "id": "b20e78f1-2cd1-4363-b81f-98e360bb3133", "slug": "he-has-to-find", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/he-has-to-find", "text": "“He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Margaret Atwood", "slug": "margaret-atwood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood" }, "book": { "title": "Oryx and Crake", "slug": "oryx-and-crake", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#Oryx_and_Crake_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:11" }, { "id": "7d1ab158-dd77-4d0f-a611-9b9d06363279", "slug": "im-fine-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/im-fine-said", "text": "“I'm fine,\" said Pilar, \"for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Margaret Atwood", "slug": "margaret-atwood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood" }, "book": { "title": "The Year of the Flood", "slug": "the-year-of-the-flood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "peace of mind", "slug": "peace-of-mind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace-of-mind" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#The_Year_of_the_Flood_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:11" }, { "id": "f9af3c62-833d-48cf-bb50-b5b7ff4fd56b", "slug": "no-matter-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/first-person-singular/no-matter-how", "text": "No matter how vivid memories may be, they can’t win out against the power of time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "First Person Singular", "slug": "first-person-singular", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/first-person-singular" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 154, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#First_Person_Singular_(2021)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:04" }, { "id": "2d728291-2458-43f7-a684-504c82ff8c9d", "slug": "favoritism-elitism-leader-worship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/favoritism-elitism-leader-worship", "text": "Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ursula K. 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Now we know that we have clocks woven into every one of our cells. Philosophers also used to ask how we know that the sun will rise tomorrow. In a sense we have that answer built into us, too. The clock is a kind of orrery in the heart of every one of our cells, revolving to help us keep time with our world, a model of the cosmos inside our heads that cycles whether we are in or out of sight of the sun. The revolution of the stars and the seasons is written in the turns of our DNA.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jonathan Weiner", "slug": "jonathan-weiner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-weiner" }, "book": { "title": "Time, Love, Memory", "slug": "time-love-memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-weiner/time-love-memory" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 193, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "science", "slug": "science", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Weiner#Time,_Love,_Memory:_A_Great_Biologist_and_His_Quest_for_the_Origins_of_Behavior_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:41" }, { "id": "8040a693-030d-49c8-9134-940f32f7f121", "slug": "all-times-seem", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-weiner/the-beak-of-the-finch/all-times-seem", "text": "All times seem special to those who live in them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jonathan Weiner", "slug": "jonathan-weiner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-weiner" }, "book": { "title": "The Beak of the Finch", "slug": "the-beak-of-the-finch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-weiner/the-beak-of-the-finch" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 276, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Weiner#The_Beak_of_the_Finch:_A_Story_of_Evolution_in_Our_Time_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:40" }, { "id": "ae8d5002-eeb2-4e4a-9ec9-e15188963e91", "slug": "death-cannot-be-struggled", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/midnight-tides/death-cannot-be-struggled", "text": "Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. 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And pain as well, so much of that, and so much time to suffer it in too. One or the other on its own I could probably manage. It's the two together that really get me down.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Douglas Adams", "slug": "douglas-adams", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams" }, "book": { "title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "slug": "so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:28" }, { "id": "7e908483-18f6-4042-81d6-0058d0321157", "slug": "time-is-an-illusion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase/time-is-an-illusion", "text": "\"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.\"\n\n\"Very deep,\" said Arthur, \"you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Douglas Adams", "slug": "douglas-adams", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams" }, "book": { "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase", "slug": "the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_2", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:25" }, { "id": "d0ddeab4-2587-43cd-a4cc-053f0dc82905", "slug": "the-greatest-mystery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/main-street/the-greatest-mystery", "text": "The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sinclair Lewis", "slug": "sinclair-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "Main Street", "slug": "main-street", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/main-street" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "secrets", "slug": "secrets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis#Main_Street_(1920)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:00" }, { "id": "fba2b319-e539-4eb7-bb50-4be9ce23b253", "slug": "boredom-is-like", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/cool-memories/boredom-is-like", "text": "Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. 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There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster. And that's what I'm doing: I'm manufacturing time.\"\n\n\"What do you mean?\"\n\n\"I'm producing everything I need, I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Atlas Shrugged", "slug": "atlas-shrugged", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 721, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_One:_Atlantis", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:52" }, { "id": "49bf2129-5816-4223-94dd-3d1287e12657", "slug": "we-can-experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/the-children-of-men/we-can-experience", "text": "We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "P.D. James", "slug": "pd-james", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james" }, "book": { "title": "The Children of Men", "slug": "the-children-of-men", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/the-children-of-men" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "immortality", "slug": "immortality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._James#The_Children_of_Men_(1992)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:42" }, { "id": "ed4821ef-d04e-4fde-ba1a-852807ca3028", "slug": "dont-you-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise/dont-you-know", "text": "“Don’t you know about all those theorems that say nothing is what it seems? There’s no past, present, or future outside our own mind. The so-called laws of motion are a big hoax.” – Heinrich", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Don DeLillo", "slug": "don-delillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo" }, "book": { "title": "White Noise", "slug": "white-noise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/White_Noise_(novel)#Heinrich", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:38" }, { "id": "3b7fc8e6-1507-4bfd-a293-e2d240e12d44", "slug": "b-march-14-1969", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski/house-of-leaves/b-march-14-1969", "text": "[B]\n\nMarch 14, 1969\n\nWho has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mark Z. Danielewski", "slug": "mark-z-danielewski", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski" }, "book": { "title": "House of Leaves", "slug": "house-of-leaves", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski/house-of-leaves" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 543, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#Exhibits_and_Appendices", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:36" }, { "id": "b0db2133-e380-4bb4-975f-95f1114b5f93", "slug": "as-long-as-we-believe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/bridge-across-forever/as-long-as-we-believe", "text": "As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Richard Bach", "slug": "richard-bach", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach" }, "book": { "title": "Bridge Across Forever", "slug": "bridge-across-forever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/bridge-across-forever" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Bach#The_Bridge_Across_Forever_(1984)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:19" }, { "id": "e821fb00-286c-4361-8f58-9f9dbbab10db", "slug": "do-you-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22/do-you-know", "text": "\"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?\" Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. \"This long.\" He snapped his fingers. \"A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.\"\n\n\"Old?\" asked Clevinger with surprise. \"What are you talking about?\"\n\n\"Old.\"\n\n\"I'm not old.\"\n\n\"You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?\" Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.\n\n\"Well, maybe it is true,\" Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. \"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?\"\n\n\"I do,\" Dunbar told him.\n\n\"Why?\" Clevinger asked.\n\n\"What else is there?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Heller", "slug": "joseph-heller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller" }, "book": { "title": "Catch-22", "slug": "catch-22", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller#Catch-22_(1961)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:11" }, { "id": "a0a268d8-fea2-47ab-b5ce-78a75ab30473", "slug": "god-has-commanded", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/god-has-commanded", "text": "God has commanded time to console the afflicted.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:05" }, { "id": "6930f93c-b093-4263-b999-465e8f62d159", "slug": "where-does-discontent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/sweet-thursday/where-does-discontent", "text": "Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "Sweet Thursday", "slug": "sweet-thursday", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/sweet-thursday" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "desire", "slug": "desire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Sweet_Thursday_(1954)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:01" }, { "id": "f7aabe54-8cd9-4363-a456-3626906b5fb2", "slug": "he-told-me-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/he-told-me-how", "text": "He told me how a man, a real man, had no right to let sorrow destroy him. He told me again and again how I must believe that time would take care of it. He said it so often that I knew he was losing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 283, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:00" }, { "id": "6c0f778b-5b25-4a40-884e-c3679e2d56a2", "slug": "yes-memory-without", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/yes-memory-without", "text": "Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 373, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:00" }, { "id": "44438479-af5b-4c87-967f-20f92bae570f", "slug": "a-mans-mind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/a-mans-mind", "text": "A man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 144, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_2", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:00" }, { "id": "cb22cd41-fe85-4193-a81c-c297f7403d72", "slug": "eventlessness-has-no-posts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/eventlessness-has-no-posts", "text": "Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_1", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:59" }, { "id": "2da0a2d1-6f1d-4b2c-a5dd-7e16c60cb6c0", "slug": "time-is-more", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/tortilla-flat/time-is-more", "text": "Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "Tortilla Flat", "slug": "tortilla-flat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/tortilla-flat" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "the sea", "slug": "the-sea", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-sea" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Tortilla_Flat_(1935)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:57" }, { "id": "17014d59-bb73-4e95-a837-87d91783a0a5", "slug": "if-time-is-treated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-koestler/the-sleepwalkers/if-time-is-treated", "text": "If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of \"purpose\" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Koestler", "slug": "arthur-koestler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-koestler" }, "book": { "title": "The Sleepwalkers", "slug": "the-sleepwalkers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-koestler/the-sleepwalkers" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler#The_Sleepwalkers:_A_History_of_Man's_Changing_Vision_of_the_Universe_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:55" }, { "id": "8df3868c-c7f8-403d-9141-394fceaa2a03", "slug": "there-was-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/there-was-nothing", "text": "There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Galileo's Dream", "slug": "galileos-dream", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 282, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Galileo's_Dream_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:46" }, { "id": "7968c612-37f1-42aa-9c4f-d3da08adb1ee", "slug": "so-that-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/so-that-was", "text": "So that was the past. There and not there. His whole life. If nothing was real but this moment, Planck instant after Planck instant, an unimaginably thin membrane of becoming between past and future—his life—what then was it, so thin, so without any tangible past or future: a blaze of color.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Blue Mars", "slug": "blue-mars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 713, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "the past", "slug": "the-past", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:46" }, { "id": "b8ca96f8-b67a-4f0f-8925-8762dae8deee", "slug": "no-one-could", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/no-one-could", "text": "No one could complain about it, or moan for the good old days, without revealing nostalgia for a heroic age that had not actually been heroic—or, along with heroic, had also been suppressed, limited, inconvenient and dangerous. No, Nirgal had no desire for nostalgia—the meaning of life lay not in the past but in the present, not in resistance but in expression.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Blue Mars", "slug": "blue-mars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 356, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "nostalgia", "slug": "nostalgia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nostalgia" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:45" }, { "id": "3d583df1-ab76-4a9c-999c-bc41b67a056f", "slug": "phenomena-unfold-on-their", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-jay-gould/eight-little-piggies/phenomena-unfold-on-their", "text": "Phenomena unfold on their own appropriate scales of space and time and may be invisible in our myopic world of dimensions assessed by comparison with human height and times metered by human lifespans. So much of accumulating importance at earthly scales […] is invisible by the measuring rod of a human life. 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If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. 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In the early dawn, standing weapon in hand, neither of the combatants would be the same man as on the evening of the quarrel. They would be going through it, if at all, mechanically, in obedience to the demands of honour, not, as they would have at first, of their own free will, desire, and conviction; and such a denial of their actual selves in favour of their past ones, it must somehow be possible to prevent.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Mann", "slug": "thomas-mann", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann" }, "book": { "title": "The Magic Mountain", "slug": "the-magic-mountain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "honour", "slug": "honour", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honour" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#The_Magic_Mountain_(1924)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:17" }, { "id": "423329fd-0e09-4a2e-b675-40ec76ee589a", "slug": "time-has-no-divisions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain/time-has-no-divisions", "text": "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. 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Yes, it can even, in the twinkling of an eye, make something like a vagabond of the pedant and Philistine. 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All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Red Prophet", "slug": "red-prophet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/red-prophet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Red_Prophet_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:12" }, { "id": "2ded7b9c-c8f6-4e6e-ba03-c7829a83d526", "slug": "the-problem-with", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby/the-problem-with", "text": "The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Lullaby", "slug": "lullaby", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "storytelling", "slug": "storytelling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/storytelling" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Lullaby_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:58" }, { "id": "7235b88e-cb2c-4cf0-87aa-e29d148473f3", "slug": "no-people-whose", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/midnights-children/no-people-whose", "text": "No people whose word for \"yesterday\" is the same as their word for \"tomorrow\" can be said to have a firm grip on the time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Salman Rushdie", "slug": "salman-rushdie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie" }, "book": { "title": "Midnight's Children", "slug": "midnights-children", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/midnights-children" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Midnight's_Children#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:26" }, { "id": "a3cee584-e76e-4362-9ccb-4e67ee3bbdfa", "slug": "for-modern-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/for-modern-man", "text": "For modern man one of the most troubling aspects of eternity lies in getting used to the slippery quality of time. With no clocks and no calendars and lacking even the alternation of day and night, or the phases of the moon, or the pageant of seasons, duration becomes subjective and \"What time is it?\" is a matter of opinion, not of fact.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "slug": "robert-a-heinlein", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein" }, "book": { "title": "Job: A Comedy of Justice", "slug": "job-a-comedy-of-justice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 367, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "eternity", "slug": "eternity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/eternity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:20" }, { "id": "647a568f-563b-48cb-a594-ed36dfeea34e", "slug": "how-marvelous-books", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/how-marvelous-books", "text": "How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gore Vidal", "slug": "gore-vidal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal" }, "book": { "title": "Julian", "slug": "julian", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "reading", "slug": "reading", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Julian_(1964)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:18" }, { "id": "5b2fd9ec-bf6a-4bd3-a8e8-0ecd62b5215c", "slug": "time-unfortunately-though", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/orlando/time-unfortunately-though", "text": "Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "Orlando", "slug": "orlando", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/orlando" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#Orlando:_A_Biography_(1928)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:16" }, { "id": "071ac003-8b56-4c84-bc21-f2765e4bc7a1", "slug": "the-years-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened/the-years-are", "text": "The years are too short, the days are too long.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Heller", "slug": "joseph-heller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller" }, "book": { "title": "SOMETHING HAPPENED", "slug": "something-happened", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller#Something_Happened_(1974)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:13" }, { "id": "d162525e-cd4c-4335-a8eb-7df670c30543", "slug": "time-moves-in-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/distrust-that-particular-flavor/time-moves-in-one", "text": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.\n\nWe are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Gibson", "slug": "william-gibson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson" }, "book": { "title": "Distrust that Particular Flavor", "slug": "distrust-that-particular-flavor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/distrust-that-particular-flavor" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "forgetting", "slug": "forgetting", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgetting" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:10" }, { "id": "62d34af4-f0ef-4d4f-851a-d57b30d4fcd4", "slug": "in-an-expanding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/in-an-expanding", "text": "In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Quentin Crisp", "slug": "quentin-crisp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp" }, "book": { "title": "The Naked Civil Servant", "slug": "the-naked-civil-servant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp#The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:10" }, { "id": "99d54b02-8fa7-4adb-bdc8-3a4c5ff1e43a", "slug": "a-slave-is-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/the-green-brain/a-slave-is-one", "text": "\"A slave is one who must produce wealth for another,\" the Brain said. \"There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time. Time. 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This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Children of Dune", "slug": "children-of-dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "thinking", "slug": "thinking", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:52" }, { "id": "fa817423-f80f-431f-877d-ebd633f0ab57", "slug": "the-future-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-future-the", "text": "The future, the past and the present are intertwined, a weave that forms any point in time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "the future", "slug": "the-future", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future" }, { "name": "the past", "slug": "the-past", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_The_Machine_Crusade_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:50" }, { "id": "506efceb-bd24-4903-8b53-9f9016bdd735", "slug": "a-human-lifespan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/a-human-lifespan", "text": "A human lifespan is not always sufficient for a person to achieve greatness. To counter this, some of us have seized more time for ourselves.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "ambition", "slug": "ambition", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_The_Machine_Crusade_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:50" }, { "id": "a8cae9da-e111-4cba-9a7c-65cb6027bd81", "slug": "do-you-wrestle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/do-you-wrestle", "text": "Do you wrestle with dreams?\n\nDo you contend with shadows?\n\nDo you move in a kind of sleep?\n\nTime has slipped away.\n\nYour life is stolen.\n\nYou tarried with trifles.\n\nVictim of your folly.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_1:_Dune", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48" }, { "id": "5e70c5dd-56d1-48f4-a733-ca26e52f8fe2", "slug": "just-like-a-computer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/a-brief-history-of-time/just-like-a-computer", "text": "Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can’t have a safer bet than that!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen W. 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An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Cosmos", "slug": "cosmos", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 73, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Cosmos_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:27" }, { "id": "df4fee19-047f-4675-b02b-b2c0fd786760", "slug": "time-does-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/time-does-not", "text": "'Time does not tarry ever,' he said; 'but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do not count the running years, not for themselves. Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J.R.R. 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Time was coming unstuck from being — at my expense.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emil Cioran", "slug": "emil-cioran", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran" }, "book": { "title": "The Trouble With Being Born", "slug": "the-trouble-with-being-born", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "childhood", "slug": "childhood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#The_Trouble_With_Being_Born_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:41" }, { "id": "bca35271-222f-4621-88d4-c9aece886d12", "slug": "ennui-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay/ennui-is-the", "text": "Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emil Cioran", "slug": "emil-cioran", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran" }, "book": { "title": "A Short History of Decay", "slug": "a-short-history-of-decay", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "boredom", "slug": "boredom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#A_Short_History_of_Decay_(1949)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:40" }, { "id": "04f0b3f9-0b91-4597-84f1-3117d88f3a08", "slug": "in-a-single", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay/in-a-single", "text": "In a single second we do away with all seconds; God himself could not do as much.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emil Cioran", "slug": "emil-cioran", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran" }, "book": { "title": "A Short History of Decay", "slug": "a-short-history-of-decay", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "suicide", "slug": "suicide", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suicide" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#A_Short_History_of_Decay_(1949)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:39" }, { "id": "48830af6-9ee0-4edd-aa29-0bd1baf35073", "slug": "time-was-long", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/time-was-long", "text": "Time was long during early childhood; we only tried to pass our time for fear of using it ill; now it is the other way; we have not time enough for all that would be of use. 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There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. ...This little affair... is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through Time. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "H.G. 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This saddle represents the seat of a time traveler. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future time, and disappear. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "H.G. 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Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by travelling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Albert Camus", "slug": "albert-camus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus" }, "book": { "title": "The Plague", "slug": "the-plague", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Plague_(1947)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:56" }, { "id": "99066bfb-9304-4b58-86e3-a55e6892c3d1", "slug": "to-have-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/to-have-time", "text": "To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. 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