Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

This is Year Zero.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.