Quotes About Time

you've probably noticed that after the first half-century practically everybody gets leaky, they can't keep it in ... hence the cruelty of long drawn-out meals and drinking sessions ... ships and apartment houses are the same ... everything starts to leak ... sphincters, bladders, drain pipes, bowels ... the half-century is merciless for ladies and gentlemen ... worse for dogs and cats! ... with them it comes sooner! ... five ... six years ...

I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for sixteen hours out of twenty-four, they sleep, they copulate the rest, where would they find the time to read a hundred pages? oh, do caca, I forgot! as well!

Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things that are in a man's past have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelopes them all.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As

the days had got to be like hoops, tighter and tighter to get through, and filled with bursts of shrapnel.

Gelecekten söz eden her kimse namussuzdur,tek geçerli olan güncel oland?r.Kendi ölümsüzlüÄŸüne deÄŸinmek,solucanlara söylev çekmeye benzer.

Szybko siÄ™ starzejemy, i to w sposób nieodwracalny. Zdajemy sobie z tego najlepiej sprawÄ™ po sposobie w jaki kochamy nasze nieszcz??cie. Natura jest od nas silniejsza, i tyle. Testuje nas w jednej roli, a pó?niej nie umiemy siÄ™ ju? od tej roli oderwa?.

Me abruma la miseria humana, ya sea física o moral. Siempre existió, está bien; pero en los viejos tiempos se ofrecía a un Dios, cualquiera. Hoy, en el mundo, hay millones de personas indigentes, y su angustia ya no va a ninguna parte. Nuestro tiempo, además, es un tiempo de miseria sin arte, es lamentable. El hombre está desnudo, despojado de todo, incluso de la fe en sí mismo

Les vivants qu'on égare dans les cryptes du temps dorment si bien avec les morts qu'une même ombre les confond déjà.

Sophie, as I'd noticed on other occasions, needed time to get her emotions started. Not that she was cold. When it hit her, it was like a ton of bricks, but she needed time.

Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day. For

La mayoría de la gente no muere hasta el último momento; otros empiezan veinte años antes y a veces más. Son los desgraciados de la tierra.

That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day.

The one thing any of us really cared about was living for one more hour, one more hour is a big deal in a world where everything has reduced itself to murder.

Si elle n'est plus belle, eh bien tant pis ! Nous nous arrangerons ! J'ai gardé tant de beauté d'elle en moi, si vivace, si chaude que j'en ai bien pour tous les deux et pour au moins vingt ans encore, le temps d'en finir.

There's never enough time, it's true, not even for thinking of yourself. Well

youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.

Old and rundown as things may be, they still find the strength, the Lord knows where, to get older.

Invocar la posteridad es hacer un discurso a los gusanos.

Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being murdered, it obviously requires no great effort to pass for a lunatic.

En quelques mois ça change une chambre, même quand on n'y bouge rien. Si vieilles, si déchues qu'elles soient, les choses, elles trouvent encore, on ne sait où, la force de vieillir. Tout avait changé déjà autour de nous. Pas les objets de place, bien sûr, mais les choses elles-mêmes, en profondeur.