Ray Bradbury Quotes

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.