Funny Quote by Robert Browning

“Only one thing held my attention: the hands of a clock stopped at the minute that Frederick expired. I was deceived by the stillness…

— Chateaubriand

“And now we enter a never-world of time change. And this scene is all about magic. The changes are rapid as we leap between…

— John Tiffany

“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the two embarced,…

— Amor Towles

“One spring morning timing the lean near-liquid progress of a horse on a track, the dust exploding, the rapid hasping of his hocks, coming…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now,…

— Peter Ackroyd

“What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of crisis, of…

— Frank Kermode

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he…

— Horace

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

— Dave Eggers

“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glances unfailingly…

— Abe Kōbō

“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much…

— John Dolan

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb