“As Yudhishtara says to the Yaksha: ‘In this cauldron fashioned from de...” — Pavan K. Varma Quote

“As Yudhishtara says to the Yaksha: ‘In this cauldron fashioned from delusion, with the sun as fire and day and night as kindling wood, the months and seasons as the ladle for stirring, Time (or Death) cooks all beings: this is the simple truth.”

“The Hindu civilisation’s thought processes were never overwhelmed, even when its people were conquered. This is important, because monuments can be destroyed, but the fortress of ideas is imperishable.”

“The value afforded time is shown by how it is spent”

“Carmen measured her days in books.”

“We are ahead of our time in terms of wasting time.”

“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.”

“Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time's rule over us even more precise.”

“Money without time is next to meaningless.”