Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

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

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

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.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Time has only a relative existence.

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