Quotes About Time

Vorbei! ein dummes Wort. Warum vorbei? Vorbei und reines Nicht, vollkommnes Einerlei. Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen, Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen? Da ist's vorbei! Was ist daran zu lesen? Es ist so gut als wär es nicht gewesen, Und treibt sich doch im Kreis als wenn es wäre. Ich liebte mir dafür das Ewig-Leere.

Si a un instante le digo alguna vez: -Detente, eres tan bello-, puedes atarme entonces con cadenas y acepto hundirme entonces de buen grado; puede doblar entonces la campana, y libre quedarás de mi servicio: ¡párese allí el reloj con sus agujas! ¡Puede acabar el tiempo para mí!

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

One who has passed the thirtieth year already is as good as dead-- it would be best to kill you off by then.

La vejez no nos vuelve infantiles, como dicen, sino que nos encuentra todavía cual verdaderos niños.

Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Life is the childhood of our immortality

People imagine that they can hold their own against the literary production of the world. An illusion. You dig through the centuries, through all the various corners of the universe, and nowhere are you at home. Through this game, judgement and thought lose their edge. It is simply a waste of time and strength.

Euch bedaur ich, unglückselige Sterne, Die ihr schön seid und so herrlich scheinet, Dem bedrängten Schiffer gerne leuchtet, Unbelohnt von Göttern und von Menschen: Denn ihr liebt nicht, kanntet nie die Liebe! Unaufhaltsam führen ewge Stunden Eure Reihen durch den weiten Himmel. Welche Reise habt ihr schon vollendet! Seit ich weilend in dem Arm der Liebsten Euer und der Mitternacht vergessen

Minden, minden elmúlt! Semmi jele annak a volt világnak, egyetlen szívdobbanás sem maradt akkori érzéseimb?l. Mintha kísértet volnék, amely visszatér kiégett, romos kastélyába, dús fejedelem korában maga építette, tündökl?n fölékesített palotájába, amelyet haldoklásában is reménnyel telve hagyott szeretett fiára.

He whose vision cannot cover History's three thousand years, Must in outer darkness hover, Live within the day's frontiers.

Mentre la vita ci trascina, crediamo di agire di nostra volontà, di scegliere la nostra attività, i nostri divertimenti; a ben vedere siamo costretti a eseguire solo i progetti, le inclinazioni del tempo.

Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren Sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib im Dunkeln, unerfahren, Mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Shame upon him who can look on calmly, and exclaim, 'The foolish girl! she should have waited; she should have allowed time to wear off the impression; her despair would have been softened, and she would have found another lover to comfort her.' One might as well say, 'The fool, to die of a fever! why did he not wait till his strength was restored, till his blood became calm? all would then have gone well, and he would have been alive now.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him

Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task. Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task

All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet.")

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.