Quotes About Time

Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments; this is the mystery of divine providence.

no moment can be wasted, no opportunity missed, since each has a purpose in man's life, each has a purpose in God's plan.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

It's the same as the city, Sarah knows, the same hierarchy of power, beginning with the blocs in the orbits and ending with people who might as well be the fieldmice in front of the blades of the harvester, pointless, countless lives in the path of a structure that can't be stopped. She feels the anger coiling around her like armor. The chance to rest, she thinks, was nice enough while it lasted. But right now another fragment of time must be survived.

All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Time was God's first creation.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Aber was interessiert mich der Schnee von morgen? Ich bin mit der Bewältigung und Vergangenheit so gut ausgelastet, dass ich nicht auch noch wissen muss, was mir in der Zukunft blüht.

Nog één ding, jongen, wat je in je oren moet knopen: het gaat niet om hoe een verhaal begint. Ook niet om hoe het eindigt. Maar om wat daartussenin gebeurt.

Der Ruhm mag schwinden, aber die Vergessenheit währt ewig.

Dicke Bücher sind deswegen dick, weil der Autor nicht die Zeit hatte sich kurz zu fassen.

Grosse lacrime cominciarono a scorrermi sulla faccia e mi sforzai di convincermi che era solo una questione di nervi. E invece piangevo per la tristezza di dover constatare che il tempo sfugge a tutti noi e non si lascia alle spalle altro che immagini sempre più pallide.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.

In tiefen, kalten, hohlen Räumen, Wo Schatten sich mit Schatten paaren, Wo alte Bücher Träume träumen, Von Zeiten, als sie Bäume waren, Wo Kohle Diamant gebiert, Man weder Licht noch Gnade kennt, Dort ist's, wo jener Geist regiert, Den man den Schattenkönig nennt.

In my profession it isn't a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it's always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won't be discovered for another hundred years? I'll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

The older you get the more you live in the past

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Once things have passed and become irretrievable, we tend to see them with a hazy, golden glow.

it often occurs that a work of art — even though incomprehensible — remains in the mind, and produces its effect years later, when people are apt to remark that it was not the same as when they first saw it, transferring to the object under discussion the chance in themselves.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

This time called life was meant to share.