"There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take the slower path."
— Madame de Pompadour, Doctor Who, "The Girl in the Fireplace"
"I need you to take a message to Sally Sparrow. And I'm sorry Billy, I am very, very sorry ... it's going to take you a while."
— 10th Doctor, Doctor Who, "Blink"
"Is this how time normally passes? Reaaally slowwlly? In the right order?"
— 11th Doctor, Doctor Who, "Vincent and the Doctor"
"So, I've just had the most infuriating 77 years of my life."
Fry: What was it like, lying in that hole for a thousand years?
Bender: I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!
Bender: I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!
The Phantom Stranger: But we have no other choice. Can you travel into the future, John Constantine?
John Constantine: Only like everyone else, boss. You know. One minute at a time.
John Constantine: Only like everyone else, boss. You know. One minute at a time.
"I've got a Time Machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed."
Omi: The only way I could get to the future was by waiting, so that's what I did!
Clay: You... waited?
Dojo: For fifteen hundred years?
Kimiko: But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!
Jack: Or that "old person" smell.
Clay: You... waited?
Dojo: For fifteen hundred years?
Kimiko: But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!
Jack: Or that "old person" smell.
"The first ten million years were the worst; and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
Superman: How did you get here?
Vandal Savage: The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal.
Vandal Savage: The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal.
— Justice League, "Hereafter"
"That wasn't so bad. I'm hardly insane at all from the aeons of isolation and blind, seething rage."
— Sarda, 8-Bit Theater
"The oven doesn't really have any magical time properties to be negated. It just travels into the future at a rate of one second per second, like everyone else."
Tucker: But what about Church, idiots? How are we going to get him from the Past to the Future?
Grif: I guess he can just wait. That's how it usually works.
Grif: I guess he can just wait. That's how it usually works.
Gary: Do you have a plan yet?
Church: I've been standing in this hallway thinking for a thousand years. I've had time.
Church: I've been standing in this hallway thinking for a thousand years. I've had time.
Well, I had to get to the future the hard way! Living through the... filth! The decay! And the bloodshed!
— Vault Tec Rep, Fallout 4
So many lives, it's become a blur. I don't know who I am anymore, only that I must sail onward; ever-onward down the river of time. Never resting, always moving, further draining my Nanite reserves beyond my ability to replenish. At each re-emergence I am pursued by the nameless force... I now know it's personal. I am a virus; an infection of Space-Time. Call it what you like, this is Times' Antibody! And whether I am borne home or drowned in its' currents: this is my final journey...
— Van Kleiss, Generator Rex
Man: This is shell of time-travelling device. Power source is from future. So not invented yet. So boring.
Victor: Well, do you have any other way for us to get to the future?
Man: Yes! Live very long time! Future come without machine!
Victor: Well, do you have any other way for us to get to the future?
Man: Yes! Live very long time! Future come without machine!
— Runaways
Superman: I was so afraid that I'd never see you again!
Lois Lane: What? Why? I mean... I worried when you disappeared, babe, but that was just a couple of hours ago!
Superman: Is that all? Hard to believe... it was nearly five months for me.
Lois: Five months?!
Lois Lane: What? Why? I mean... I worried when you disappeared, babe, but that was just a couple of hours ago!
Superman: Is that all? Hard to believe... it was nearly five months for me.
Lois: Five months?!
— Action Comics #665
"I don't travel through time. Time travels through me."
Max: You... JERKS!
Sam: You made us go through the last year and a half all over again!
—Sam and Max to their past selves, S2E4 Chariot of the Dogs
Mineru: There are stories about the secret stones and a forbidden act called draconification. "To swallow a secret stone is to become an immortal dragon, one blessed with eternal life."
Rauru: Interesting. Another way to reach the future... though not a very quick one.
