Quotes About Time

Renouncing life's years is renouncing own life itself.

Las prisas solían matar

Nada traicionan, tanto tiempo después, la mujer que desde hace dos años vive sola junto al mar con un perro y unos libros. Qué otra cosa, decide, seria el impulso, o el deseo, de permanecer abrazada a ese hombre para siempre. Ignora que habrá en su cabeza dentro de un par de horas, cuando la claridad del día despeje del todo e ilumine con mas crudeza su conciencia. Lo cierto es que en este momento, sin duda alguna, desearía morir si el muriera.

A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más fáciles de entender a través de un libro.

The present cut cleanly, like a scalpel.

Las leyendas sólo sobreviven vistas de lejos.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?" "Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.

Time passes, and we "measure out our lives in coffee spoons.

So take advantage of this human boat. Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

A final word might not echo for ages but silence stays for eternity.

There are times when you have lot of things to do while sometimes you wish you had!

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

They'd had a long chat, Elsie Gormley and this house, more than sixty years of it. It had witnessed all her tempers, all her moods, and usually improved them. It held her voice, her husband's, her children's, and now their children's in turn - echoes and repetitions lodged in around the baseboards, around the window frames like those pale motes of dust that had wedged at the edge of the kitchen floor.

Time lapse photography, Nan," she'd said. "You compress time - take a single shot every couple of minutes, and then run it together like film." She had another project that showed dresses being made, the fabric seeming to leap through the stages from cutting to sewing to fitting to catwalk in less than a minute....That was what life felt like now.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The goal in life is to die young, as late as possible