The passage of time makes wizards of us all.

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that…

— Wallace Shawn

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

— Jennifer Egan

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that…

— Christine Sneed

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was…

— Werner Herzog

The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the…

— Ray Davies

“So there is a before and there is an after. That isn't made up. But it's just a passage of time, no big change…

— Olivia Sudjic

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is…

— Sophie Swetchine

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing…

— Mark Boal

“Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.”

— Tim Lebbon

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that…

— Peter Hammill

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in…

— John Irving

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“And I got a strong feeling of the passage of time. Not the time of clouds and sun and rain and the moving stars…

— Merce Rodoreda

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object…

— Maya Lin

“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

— Roland Barthes