For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

Given time — time not in years but in millennia — life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

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

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

[A]wareness of time ceases to be an asset when concern for the future makes it almost impossible to live in the present[.]

Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.

The only constant in a world of tremendous change is the swift passage of time. Five years passed like a blur.

Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains — except kill it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.