Quotes About Time

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

This is why the camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time; and is why in turn I feel such rage at its misuse: which has spread so nearly universal a corruption of sight that I know of less than a dozen alive whose eyes I can trust even so much as my own.'   'If

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Actually, we shot it over two days and the ghost of Danny DeVito was devastatingly present the whole time.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.

His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

We are fossils in the making.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.

Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window.

She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.

The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. Those I don't have, but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on.

A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.

The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

He says that when asked if he feels like an old man he replies that he does not, he feels like a young man

You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One of us doesn't differ that much from another, each generation repeats its parents, the works we build to outlast us are not much more enduring than anthills, and much less so than coral reefs.

I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.

Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.