What is time?
The shadow on a dial, the striking of the clock,
the running of the sand,
day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries -
these are but arbitrary and outward signs,
the measure of Time, not Time itself.
Time is the Life of the Soul.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But there is something about Time.
The sun rises and sets.
The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade.
Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again.
The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn.
Around millions of clocks swing hour hands,
and minute hands, and second hands.
Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale.
Around goes the circle of night and day,
the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.
-Madeleine L'Engle
Different times of the day and night
have different qualities.
It's as though time has different personalities.
-Shirley Maclaine
There is no time
like the pleasant.
-Oliver Herford
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
-Alexander Smith
The time that you enjoy wasting
is not wasted time.
-Bertrand Russell
Time is the most valuable thing
a man can spend.
-Theophrastus
An inch of time is an inch of gold:
Treasure it.
-Ching-Yuen
If you love life, don't waste time,
for time is what life is made up of.
-Bruce Lee
Controlled time is wealth.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Time is the coin of your life.
It is the only coin your have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest other people spend it for you.
-Carl Sandburg
Oh, seize the instant time;
you will never power the mill
with waters that have already passed by.
-Richard Chenevix Trench
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
-William Shakespeare
Be always resolute with the present hour.
Every moment is of infinite value.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I recommend you to take care of the minutes:
for the hours will take care of themselves.
-Philip Stanforth, Earl of Chesterfield
Hold fast the time!
Guard it, watch over it,
every hour, every minute!
Unregarded it slips away,
like a lizard smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife.
Hold every moment sacred.
Give each clarity and meaning,
each the weight of thine awareness,
each its true and due fulfillment.
-Thomas Mann
One always has time enough,
if one will apply it well.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Time implies the old and the new as a movement
from the roots of yesterday to the flowering of tomorrow.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
...there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
-Epictetus
It takes time for a fruit
to mature and acquire sweetness  and become eatable;
time is a prime factor for most good fortune.
-Atharva Veda
Time is change, transformation, evolution.
-Isaac L. Peretz
Everything is flowing.
The Great River of Time takes everything with it,
and nothing in this world remains unchanged or unstabilized.
-Mouni Sadhu
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which is to come;
so it is with present time.
-Leonardo da Vinci
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.
-Thomas Mann
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of
Time
-William Shakespeare
Waiting is the hoofs of time.
-Kahlil Gibran
Time flies but leaves its shadow behind.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time does not fly.
It drops into the abyss.
-Sang H. Kim
Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
-Austin Dobson
Time is a localized concept.
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
Time is but a mode of thought.
-Edith Nesbit
There is no beginning of time,
only a beginning of thought.
-Byron Katie
Time is a concept of the mind.
Without mind, there is no concept of time.
-Sivananda
We must realize that time is a strange thing;
it can dilate or shorten,
in accordance with our occupations, moods, emotional state
or the various images that are in our thoughts.
-Vanda Scarvelli
The sense of time has to do with the speed of the mind.
If the mind moves fast, then time seems to be moving fast;
if the mind is slowing down, time is slowing down;
when the mind is still, there is no sense of time.
-Imre Vallyon
Thought is movement in time...
non-movement is freedom from time.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time is a convention of movement,
not a condition of existence.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Time is of your own making;
its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
time too stops dead.
-Angelus Silesius
Time is that in which all things pass away.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The fullness of time
is when time is no more.
-Meister Eckhart
In the fullness of time,
grace was born.
-Meister Eckhart
Time is not a line but a dimension,
like the dimensions of space.
-Margaret Atwood
There is no difference between Time
and of the three dimensions of Space
except that our consciousness moves along it.
-H. G. Wells
Time is the horizontal dimension of life,
the surface layer of reality.
-Eckhart Tolle
Time's arrow is bent into a loop.
-Endel Tulving
"Time" is an energetic process moving within a pattern.
The opening in the mandala.
-Marie-Louise von Franz
For time is the longest distance between two places.
-Tennessee Williams
Time is not a line,
but a series of now points.
-Taisen Deshimaru
Time is a continued over-dropping of moments,
which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.
-Jean Paul Richter
Time has only a relative existence.
-Thomas Carlyle
Our sense of time is notoriously subjective.
-Alan Watts
Time is pliable and subjective.
-Itzhak Bentov
Time, the human dimension,
which makes us everything we are.
-Martin Amis
Time is the school in which we learn,
time is the fire in which we burn.
-Delmore Schwartz
Time has no meaning in itself
unless we choose to give it significance.
-Leo Buscaglia
To have time implies the quality of elegance and ease
which gives poise to our movements and wisdom to our actions.
-Vanda Scaravelli
Time swallows up everything except character;
this is the only thing it cannot touch.
-Paramananda
Time is quantified eternity.
-Deepak Chopra
The child lives in the minute
The boy in the day
The instinctive man in the year
The imbued with history lives in the epoch
The true philosopher lives in eternity.
-Bertrand Russell
He who has no vision of eternity
has no hold on time.
-Thomas Carlyle
Only through time
time is conquered.
-T. S. Eliot
Here and henceforth it is all the same to me,
I accept Time absolutely.
-Walt Whitman
Once upon a time when there was no time.
-Celtic Proverb
No yesterday,
no tomorrow,
and no today.
-Sheng-Ts'an
Time is a stream I go a-fishing in.
I drink at it; but while I drink
I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is only in appearance that time is a river.
It is rather a vast landscape
and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
-Thornton Wilder
Would it, then, be sound to define Time
as the Life of the soul in movement as it passes
from one state or act of experience to another?
-Plotinus
Time is simply a relative measure of perceived rate of change.
-Michael D. Robbins
Time is just a collection of thoughts.
-Zen Graffiti