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Time rolls his ceaseless course.

Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)

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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb — for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

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Time is indomitable, you can’t stop it, reverse it, hold it or pause it…”

Time went by, swift but interminable. Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.

time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato, 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Time...which is eternity in disguise.

as time succeeded time into a whirlpool of eternity.

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — And motionless forever stands the Past.

Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)

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The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

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