I do hope you'll forgive me...
"Remember what I told you about time," it said. "When I was alive, I believed - as you do - that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know I could have walked through the walls."
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle.
"Subjective time with its emphasis on the now has no meaning...the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent."
Albert Einstein