“They say ‘time heals,’ but even now I know that’s a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you’ll get used to the pain. You’ll forget who you were without it; you’ll forget what you looked like without your scars.”
- Claudia Gray

Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like when you're older must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams

And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

- Joni Mitchell

Time’s fun when you’re having flies.
- Kermit the Frog

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love — time is eternity.

- Henry Van Dyke

Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.
- Haruki Murakami

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

- Elbert Hubbard

Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is eternity.
- Henry van Dyke

That's how it is for me, thinking about the future. Two different shapes. One holding time; the other escaping it. One suggesting fragility, confinement; the other, something transcendent. Turn it one way, you see an hourglass. Turn it the other way, and you see wings.

- Amy Boesky

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears.

- Fiddler on the Roof

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
And cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings."
- Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter

"I will give you a light which will guide you when all other lights have gone out." [Katharine Hepburn]

You are my light.

Love, Mom
written from Susan Eckman to Katharine Eckman; April 6, 2008

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"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day or an hour, or half a second, when so much happens its almost like you are born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."

"Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?"

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you must not forget to laugh."

-Katharine Hepburn
written to Susan Eckman, from Katharine Eckman, April 7, 2008

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
- The Cider House Rules

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Sigmund Freud

Well I was crazy about you then
And now the craziest thing of all
Over 10 years have gone by
And you're still mine
We're locked in time
Let's rewind
- Jack Johnson

Are you more amazed at how things change
Or how they stay the same
And do you sit here on this porch and wonder
How time flies
Or does it seem to barely creep along
With 75 Septembers come and gone.
- Cheryl Wheeler

Living in the moment just kills time.
- Unknown

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

- Graffiti

Time tells the truth.

- Unknown

A Year

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love.
Seasons of love.

- Rent

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
- Marilyn Monroe