{"id":4114,"date":"2015-12-31T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:53:51","slug":"ten-quotes-from-literature-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/ten-quotes-from-literature-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Quotes from Literature About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuotesThe old year is slipping away fast! \u00a0Where did the time go? Here are quotes about time from literature that may, or may not, \u00a0answer that question.<\/p>\n

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Dance with Dragons<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Call of Cthulhu<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a><\/p>\n

The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0To the Lighthouse<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Virginia Woolf<\/a><\/p>\n

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Pride and Prejudice<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jane Austen<\/a><\/p>\n

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn’t take yourself too seriously.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Land That Time Forgot<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Parables Of A Province<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Gilbert Parker<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Time Machine<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. G. Wells<\/a><\/p>\n

The right time is ANY time that one is still so lucky as to have.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Ambassadors<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Henry James<\/a><\/p>\n

“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

More Quotes From Literature About Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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