Quotes About Time

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world.

The speed of 299,796 kilometres a second, which occupies a unique position in every measure-system, is commonly referred to as the speed of light. But it is much more than that; it is the speed at which the mass of matter becomes infinite, lengths contract to zero, clocks stand still.

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.

We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.

Properties of divine decrees Let us now consider some of the properties of the divine decrees. First, they are eternal. To suppose any of them to be made in time is to suppose that some new occasion has occurred; some unforeseen event or combination of circumstances has arisen, which has induced the Most High to form a new resolution. This would argue that the knowledge of the Deity is limited, and that He is growing wiser in the progress of time—which would be horrible blasphemy.

God's glory is not dependent on the manifestation of any one attribute, but on the manifestation of each in its proper time and place, and in full harmony with the others.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Os dois companheiros constataram filosoficamente que cada dia da vida das pessoas era, sem excepção, o primeiro dia do resto das suas vidas, embora todos estivessem geralmente demasiado atarefados para pensar nisso.

Les deux camarades constatèrent en philosophes que chaque jour était sans exception le premier du temps qui restait à vivre à chacun même si l'on était en général trop occupé pour y penser

Lasciate che il cuore faccia una pausa, fosse anche solo il tempo di cento battiti, tanto per riprendere fiato, e tutto è finito. I miliardi di battiti precedenti non conterebbero più nulla.

nothing dies of old age. Everything dies of something.

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

Nos hacemos fotos, no con el objeto de recordar, sino para completarlas después con el resto de nuestras vidas. Por eso hay fotos que aciertan y fotos que no. Imágenes que el tiempo pone en su lugar, atribuyendo a unas su auténtico significado, y negando otras que se apagan solas, igual que si los colores se borraran con el tiempo.

Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, la esperanza se desvanece... Es entonces cuando te conviertes en prisionero real. Profesional, por decirlo de algún modo. Un prisionero paciente.

Había aprendido que lo malo no era la espera, sino las cosas que imaginas mientras esperas".

A century from now," he murmured as he lifted a page and examined it against the light, closing one eye, "almost all the contents of today's libraries will have disappeared. But these books, printed two hundred or even five hundred years ago, will remain intact. We have the books, and the world, that we deserve. . . . Isn't that so, Pablo?" "Lousy books printed on lousy paper.

è un terribile errore misurare le proprie forze contro quelle dei potenti, con cui è più facile perdere che vincere. È molto meglio pazientare senza fare rimostranze fino a quando il tempo o il caso non ci metteranno l'avversario a tiro di daga […] Nel caso contrario, pazienza: perché, in fin dei conti, l'ultima parola spetta a Dio ed è lui che mescola le carte, le sue e quelle di tutti noi.

Y es verdad que cualquier detalle puede cambiar la vida: un camino que se toma, por ejemplo, o que se tarda en tomar a causa de una conversación, de un cigarrillo, de un recuerdo.

A la fuerza se acaba aprendiendo, por supuesto. El problema era que, en aquel tiempo y circunstancias, podía no llegarse a vivir lo suficiente como para aprender un carajo.

You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take place will ever take place.

Si me dieran la inmortalidad absoluta a cambio de un día de Purgatorio, rechazaría el trato. Qué pereza, luego, todo el tiempo tocando el arpa en una nube, vestido con un ridículo camisón blanco... Lo mejor es dejar de existir.