Quotes About Time

another. Whereas any constant periodical appearance, or alteration of ideas, in seemingly equidistant spaces of duration, if constant

This shows, that the state of paradise was a state of immortality, of life without end; which he lost that very day that he eat: his life began from thence to shorten, and waste, and to have an end; and from thence to his actual death, was but like the time of a prisoner, between the sentence passed, and the execution, which was in view and certain.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

Delays breed dangers.

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

A rose is sweeter in the bud than full-blown.

We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all.

Perhaps all severe disabilities lead to a decrease in space and an increase in time.

In this way, you force time to your will. Time, for sighted people, is that against which they fight.

At this time, about the only thing that was still regarded as perverted was a public display of affection toward one's wife.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.

Perhaps most of us spend so much of our time thinking about the past or planning for the future that there is a very real danger that we never fully come to terms with the present.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

Oblivioni sacrum [Sacred to oblivion].

Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.

We see that music, like the world, is formed from unchanging mathematical principles deployed in time, creating complexity, variety and beauty.

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

In the West, the past is very close. In many places, it still believes it's the present.