Quotes About Time

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. If you're married for 30 years and you're making breakfast for the one you love and and he walks in, does your heart skip a beat? Anyway, it's nice to have a little breakfast made for you

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

what makes a person spend time being sad when they could be happy? [...] a person can cry or laugh. always when you're crying you could be laughing, you have the choice. crazy people know how to do this best because their minds are loose. so you can take the flexibility your mind is capable of and make it work for you. you decide what you want to do and how you want to spend your time. remember, though, that I think i'm missing some chemicals.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...

Si jamás te tocara, qué profunda extrañeza de su poemario: La velocidad del mundo

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

Tienes suerte —dije— de haber preservado el sueño en el mismo estado en que lo tuviste, de seguir deseándolo a pesar de los años de espera

It is time that determines the intensity of love.

What they want seems so simple-time together, a lifetime together, or what is left of a lifetime together-and yet that small goal, he knows, is fraught with endless complications: a maze of responsibilities and commitments, deceptions and betrayals. Why, why, why he asks himself silently for the hundredth time, couldn't they have remained somehow connected-in touch , with all that phrase implies-until they were old enough to find each other again?

But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

To what extent does time distort memory>

her skin, which she has hardly

to talk at length about her mother and father, whom she has not seen since their deaths in the late 1800s. The greatest insight to emerge from those sessions was that Etna

Years had passed, and all of life was different now.

It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.

Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.