Quotes About Time

But destiny has an indelible memory.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.

in these moments, my focus narrows to this femme, this street, this time, protecting her as best I can, not walking back and forth in front of the fence and growling, just slowly raising my big head.

Every night, the dreams pour down and engulf me. An hour, or a day, or even a whole week from my past spills out from the dark, wrapping up my mind in a cocoon of old sensations I thought I'd left behind. Like there's a time machine in my head, I'll be catapulted backward, uncomfortably squeezed into my younger skins like shoes that I've outgrown.

The person that I am slowly becomes the girl I used to be, until eventually I surrender, saturated in my days gone by, feeling every moment for the first time . . . all over again.

The arctic loneliness of age.

Her mate laughed. "There's enough time for that later. In fact, we have a perfectly extraordinary but mortal life ahead of us.

Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray

who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray.

Nothing is ordinary,' said the tyger. 'Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world; this precise posi- tion in space and time. Everywhere else, there is a different flower, or no flower at all. And the same is true of you. Nothing special? You are miraculous beyond measure, both of you.

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Wyrzek?szy si? wszystkich przest?pstw wieku dzieci?cego, rozporz?dza? teraz du?? ilo?ci? wolnego czasu i nauczy? si? kierowa? si?y na ?ycie wewn?trzne.

Zwo?ali?my zebranie w sprawie wniosków i przyj?li?my wniosek, ?eby zwo?a? zebranie w sprawie walki z niepunktualno?ci?. Zwo?ali?my zebranie w sprawie walki z niepunktualno?ci? i przyj?li?my wniosek, ?eby si? nie spó?nia?.

Veritas filia temporis

For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what's the point of tears? I don't know. I've always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.