Quotes About Time

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

She had poisoned herself - in time.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

For many months he had occasional fits of recollection, both cold and hot; but the bridge of time, gradually lengthening, made those dreadful and delicious images grow more and more indistinct, till at last they all passed into that wonderland which a youth looks back upon in amazement, not knowing why this used to be a symbol of terror or that of joy.

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

O seasons, O châteaux,What soul is without flaws?

Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.

O may it come, the time of love, The time we'd be enamoured of. - Song of the Highest Tower

Tenemos fe en el veneno. Sabemos dar nuestra vida entera, todos los días. He aquí el tiempo de los asesinos.

Oh! May the time come when hearts fall in love.

Hace ya miles de años que la pálida Ofelia pasa, fantasma blanco por el gran río negro; más de mil años ya que su suave locura murmura su tonada en el aire nocturno.

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.

El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido.

Man kann jemanden wahnsinnig lieben und muss doch um acht Uhr früh aufstehen, nicht wahr?

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

Per sempre, voleva aggiungere Fridolin, ma prima ancora che pronunciasse quelle parole, lei gli pose un dito sulle labbra e sussurrò come fra sé: « Non si può ipotecare il futuro »

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.