time experience Quotes

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

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

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

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

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Age affects how people experience time.