Quotes About Time

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

The Past is a strange land, most strange. Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall: If they do, they cannot hurt at all.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

In eternity, there is no time for anything to happen, yet everything that has a beginning, has an end in time.

A clock does not power itself. It has to be wound. A heart also does not power itself; it must encounter things that bring it joy in life in order for it to be full. This is why saying, 'I am love' is a error. It's 'I love God' which makes the difference.

Think of it… not a moment is the same from one second to the next. And that moment will never come again. This is what the mind perceives of God… endless change (time) within changelessness (eternity).

Prayer is your treasure here on Earth! With it, you are never alone. Without it, it's easy to get lost. This is why the wise make time for prayer. And that is time always well spent.

Our bodies are the objects our minds travel in and that object ages. Over time.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that's a certain compulsive quality that, as in all great novels, appears to be beyond the author's control. On the one hand Whittemore is the master story teller, weaving his tale of good and evil with its great cast of characters over its great span of time, while on the other he is also telling a much simpler story, a story about himself, one feels, and telling it again and again.

And you'll like him, the cobbler, you'll all like him. He has amusing stories to tell and he's much better on dates than I am, and also he goes back much further, having already been a man when I was still a boy. I know we will. Certainly we will. Haj Harun smiled distantly. Well I think I'll come down now. I think it's time we began our rounds. Truly, yes do that. According to the once portable sundial in the front room, it's almost o'clock.

Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern's words, he suddenly realized. Stern's very own words spoken to him long ago, whispered now in the shadows in another time and place altogether. Strange, he thought. Time is.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Like our shadows,Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

In records that defy the tooth of time.

Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.