Quotes About Time
Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Je ne diffère des morts que par la faculté de suffoquer quelques moments de plus ; leur existence en un sens, me paraît plus assurée que la mienne.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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De cada arte practicado en su tiempo, extraigo un conocimiento que me resarce en parte de los placeres perdidos. Creí, y en mis buenos momentos lo creo todavía, que es posible compartir de esta suerte la existencia de todos, y que esa simpatía es una de las formas menos revocables de la inmortalidad.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Si por milagro algunos siglos vinieran a agregarse a los pocos días que me quedan, volvería a hacer las mismas cosas y hasta incurriría en los mismos errores; frecuentaría los mismos Olimpos y los mismos Infiernos.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Ik heb mijn strikt persoonlijke tijdrekening, onmogelijk in overeenstemming te brengen met die welke gebaseerd is op de stichting van Rome of het tijdperk van de Olympiaden. Vijftien jaren in het leger hebben korter geduurd dan een ochtend in Athene; er zijn mensen met wie ik mijn leven lang ben omgegaan en die ik in de Onderwereld niet zou herkennen.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Exist? portretele de dup? moarte, peste care moartea a trecut, chipurile acelea mari, cu buzele savant lucrate, pline de secrete ce nu-mi mai apar?in fiindc? nu mai sunt ale vie?ii.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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De nog in de duistere schoot van de tijd liggende eeuwen zouden bij duizendtallen over dat graf heen gaan zonder hem het bestaan terug te geven, maar ook zonder iets aan zijn dood toe te voegen, zonder te beletten dat hij had geleefd.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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The years merge: my memory forms but a single fresco whereon are crowded the events and travels of several seasons.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Sólo me diferencio de los muertos en que me está dado asfixiarme todavía un momento más.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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La mémoire des femmes ressemble à ces tables anciennes dont elles se servent pour coudre. Il y a des tiroirs secrets ; il y en a, fermés depuis longtemps et qui ne peuvent s'ouvrir, il y a des fleurs séchées qui ne sont plus que de la poussière de roses ; des écheveaux emmêlés, quelquefois des épingles. La mémoire de Marie était très complaisante ; elle devait lui servir à broder son passé.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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La beauté de Catherine de Mainau n'était plus qu'un souvenir ; au lieu de miroirs, elle avait dans sa chambre ses portraits d'autrefois. (p. 86)
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Le temps, qu'il avait imaginé devoir peser entre ses mains comme un lingot de plomb, fuyait et se subdivisait comme les grains du mercure. Les heures, les jours, et les mois, avaient cessé de s'accorder aux signes des horloges, et même au mouvement des astres. Il lui semblait parfois être resté toute sa vie à Bruges, et parfois y être rentré la veille. Les lieux aussi bougeaient : les distances s'abolissaient comme les jours. (L'abîme)
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Che cosa è il tempo, e perché deve considerarsi passato? Fino a quando viviamo esiste un solo tempo, il presente.
~ Maria Bellonci
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Le sue parole avevano una sonorità lontana come se prendessero la loro ragione da un passato che si faceva futuro abolendo il presente.
~ Maria Bellonci
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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
~ Maria Edgeworth
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I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.
~ Marian Keyes
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Katie's mum, Penny, said I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now. And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. He'll make mincemeat of you. He won't, Katie protested. I'm not going to fall for him. So why are you bothering at all? Just killing time until I die.
~ Marian Keyes
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The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it.
~ Marian Keyes
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However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.
~ Marian Keyes
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One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter.
~ Marian Keyes
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La corrente della vita mi spingeva in avanti, ma io resistevo. Preferivo il passato, non ancora convinta che con Shay fosse davvero finita. Quando lo avevo salutato sul traghetto non sapevo che sarebbero trascorsi quindici anni prima di rivederlo.
~ Marian Keyes
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because the past had shaped the present, it was more important than the present
~ Marian Keyes
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I'll be fifty and, seriously, what's the age when a person finally feels safe and secure? Because I really thought it would have happened by now.
~ Marian Keyes
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