Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

Quote by Glenway Wescott

Topics: Time Quotes

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

No one can roll back the time,everyone has to just keep pace even if someone...

No one can roll back the time,everyone has to just keep pace even if someone...

Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and...

Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

The present will not long endure

The present will not long endure

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all

Time is the mother and mugger of us all

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished...

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished...

There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that...

There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that...

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history...

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history...

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage...

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right...

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right...

Time is the great art of man.

Time is the great art of man.

Children spell love... T-I-M-E.

Children spell love... T-I-M-E.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows,...

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows,...