Quotes about time

There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

This wasn’t “next time,” and there would be no more of that; there was only this time, this sole finite time of whose direction and outcome Jeff knew absolutely nothing. He would not waste, not take for granted, a single moment of it.

Like fish who do not know they swim in water, we are seldom aware of the atmosphere of the times through which we move, how strange and singular they are. But when we approach another age, its alienness stands out before us, almost as if that were its most obvious quality...

Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgment.

Yet though time is cyclic, it is not repetitive; there is no other time within which it can repeat itself.

Thus the whole duration of humanity, with its many sequent species and its incessant downpour of generations, is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

The years had a way of piling themselves one atop the next, unnoticed and uncounted; that was how young men turned into old ones.