„Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.“

„Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
Sorrow calls no time that's gone;
Violets plucked, the sweetest rain
Makes not fresh nor grow again.“

—  John Fletcher English Jacobean playwright 1579 - 1625

The Queen of Corinth (1647), Act III, sc. ii. Compare: "Weep no more, Lady! weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain; For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again", Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, "The Friar of Orders Gray".

„There is no heart so hard that by weeping, praying, loving, it may not at some time be moved, nor will so cold that it cannot be warmed.“

—  Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere

Non è sí duro cor che, lagrimando,
pregando, amando, talor non si smova,
né sí freddo voler, che non si scalde.
Canzone 265, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death

„Mortal! fear no more,—
The reign is past of ancient violence;
And Jove hath sworn that time shall not deface,
Nor death destroy, nor mutability
Perplex the truth of love.“

—  Hartley Coleridge British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796 - 1849

Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus

„Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

"The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40

„The stars are dead. The animals will not look.
We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and
History to the defeated
May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.“

—  W. H. Auden, libro Spain

Fuente: Spain (1937), Lines 101–104

„When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.“

—  Ouida British novelist 1839 - 1908

Fuente: Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Chapter II

„Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.“

—  Robert Graves English poet and novelist 1895 - 1985

"Advice To Lovers"
Country Sentiment (1920)

„There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.“

—  Richard Hovey American writer 1864 - 1900

Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)

„We cannot change the past even if we could go back in time. The fabric of space-time continuum may automatically correct anomalies caused by, say, a time traveler such that any ripple effects are short-lived.“

—  Newton Lee American computer scientist

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

„And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.“

—  David Levithan, libro Wide Awake

Fuente: Wide Awake

„Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.“

—  Paulo Coelho, libro Aleph

Aleph (2011)

„There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime
Never to laugh nor love again
Nor taste the Summertime.“

—  Joyce Kilmer American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886 - 1918

"Rouge Bouquet" (1918)
Contexto: In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime
Never to laugh nor love again
Nor taste the Summertime.

„Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.“

—  Lee Smolin, libro Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

„There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations“

—  Michel Foucault, libro Vigilar y castigar. Nacimiento de la prisión

Discipline and Punish (1977)
Fuente: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

„Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.“

—  Eudora Welty American author 1909 - 2001

„The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.“

—  Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia

Book II, sec. 1.
Naturalis Historia

„Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.“

—  Barbara W. Tuchman American historian and author 1912 - 1989

Fuente: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

„But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.“

—  Bonaventure franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, catholic saint 1221 - 1274

Life of Christ

„It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.“

—  Eduard Shevardnadze Georgian politician and diplomat 1928 - 2014

As quoted in North Atlantic Assembly Political Committee Report (1990), p. 7.