“Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not these trunks of junk and dust. You’re only you, here, now—the present you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And the…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those da…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn Doing it all by hand, 'Cause when everything is handed to you It's only worth as much as the time put in It all just seemed so good the way we had it Back before everything became automatic”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“Funny how time and distance change you the road you take don't always lead you home You can start a love with good intentions and then you look up and it's gone”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”— L.M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.”— Jodi Piclout, amazon.com
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.”— Jodi Piclout, amazon.com
“Time is a tricky thing, Daniel said to his mother when he was still very young.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”— John Donne, amazon.com
“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com