“Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.
Voces (1943)
This expression greatly predates any use of it by Edison. George Head used it in A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835 (1836), p. 198, in which he states: If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
There is also an entry in the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:1) that says There is [a] time for everything, however this varies a lot between the different translations.
Misattributed
“Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.
Voces (1943)
Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor
Source: "Welcome to the Internet" Inside (2021)
“Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
Context: I tell you all, with my Divine Authority, that you and I are not “WE,” but “ONE.” You unconsciously feel my Avatarhood within you; I consciously feel in you what each of you feel. Thus every one of us is Avatar, in the sense that everyone and everything is everyone and everything, at the same time, and for all time.
There is nothing but God. He is the only Reality, and we all are one in the indivisible Oneness of this absolute Reality. When the One who has realized God says, “I am God. You are God, and we are all one,” and also awakens this feeling of Oneness in his illusion-bound selves, then the question of the lowly and the great, the poor and the rich, the humble and the modest, the good and the bad, simply vanishes. It is his false awareness of duality that misleads man into making illusory distinctions and filing them into separate categories.
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
Sarah Manguso (1974) writer, poet
Source: Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Time brings everything to light and reveals the true worth and meaning of everyone and everything.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher
Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 8. (2021)
“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men