Quotes About Time

L'instant du départ est si longtemps inscrit en nous que le moment où il arrive nous semblera toujours banal.

My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.

I think the narcolepsy is adorable. Someday you'll be happy for these little lulls. Who the fuck wants a man to be awake all the time?

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

It is as if all four of them are waiting something out, as if none of them wants the night to end. Morning has sprouted, pale and winking, by the time they say goodbye.

Maybe it's still worth it to me, even if it doesn't last forever," he said. "Maybe you're still worth it to me.

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.

You can't only think about endings," he said. "There's no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.

In that fraction of an instant between when that person stops singing and when that person decides to rise from the bed and disappear-a tiny rehearsal, though you do not yet know it, of what will eventually happen for good-time holds still, and you can feel, through your closed eyes, how that person, watching your still, small face in the darkness, has suddenly realized that you are the reason his life matters.

two thousand years." "Maybe you've been flying

youth is like a good card, which one can either play or hide under one's vest.

Denn, wie einer von Daniels Lehrern zu sagen pflegte: "Die ZEit an sich wird erst durch Akte wahrer Menschlichkeit erschaffen.

I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic."-Dom

CARPE DIEM, ORAZIO I, 11 Leuconoe, quando io e te si muoia non chiederlo agli Dei.

Fugace è la giovinezza un soffio la maturità; poi avanza tremando vecchiaia e dura, dura un'eternità.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Imao je vje?nost na raspolaganju i nije se mogao sjetiti ni?ega što bi do njezina kraja volio više ?initi, do biti uz ženu koju voli.

There is no substitute for time. Giving time is giving life to others.

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

Given time, a cold will cure itself.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

at mid-life the process Jung called "individuation" begins in earnest. It is the process of making those choices that will express one's own unique answer to the problem of death. "If I must die someday, and I cannot do everything, then I must choose what I will do, what matters most, who I will be in the time allotted to me." Figure