Bob Dylan: Quotes about time

“You can't be wise and in love at the same time.”

Bob Dylan

No Direction Home (2005)

Love , Time

“People are crazy and times are strange… I used to care but things have changed”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Variant: I used to care, but things have changed.
Context: People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range,
I used to care, but things have changed.

People , Change , Time

“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”

Bob Dylan book Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

Time

“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”

Bob Dylan

Time

“Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin'
Context: Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown.
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Time

“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

Time

“… in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking…”

Bob Dylan

Drink , Time

“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

Bob Dylan

Dreams , Thinking , Time , Flying

“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The new order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.”