What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.