Quotes About Time

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young??now you are even younger.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

I transform myself to fast: my today refutes my yesterday.

O Mensch! Gib acht! Was spricht, die tiefe Mitternacht? Ich schlief, ich schlief -, Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht: - Die Welt ist tief, Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht. Tief ist ihr Weh -, Lust - tiefer noch als Herzeleid: Weh spricht: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit -, - Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!

Everything straight lieth," murmured the dwarf, contemptuously. "All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.

What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity.

dead through immortality.' We

When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it.