Quotes About Time

And she was old, too. For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even set in.

Time that had not come yet — an anomaly in itself — had the fiercest reality for her.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

Then I realised that what I saw was a full moon rising just as the sun was going down. Each of them was standing on its edge, with the most wonderful light between them. It seemed as if you could touch it, as if there were palpable currents of light passing back and forth, or as if there were great taut skeins of light suspended between them... And that grave, and my father and I, were exactly between them, which seemed amazing to me at the time...

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.     Once

I wish I could help you carry the weight of many years. But the Lord will have that fatherly satisfaction.

It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it.

Oh, I am a limited man, and old, and he will still be his inexplicable mortal self when I am dust.

For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?

Tutta questa cittadina somiglia davvero alla speranza, quando ha cominciato a logorarsi un po', e poi si logora un altro po'. Ma una speranza rinviata resta sempre una speranza.

La infancia no dura para siempre. Algún día lo lamentarás. Pronto serás tan alta como yo.

We had visions in those days, a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams. And now all those young men are old men, if they're alive at all, and their visions are no more than dreams, and the old days are forgotten. We fly forgotten as a dream, as it says in the old hymn, and our dreams are forgotten long before we are.

What use was there in calling a day by a certain name, or thinking of it as anything but weather? They knew what time of the year it was when the timothy bloomed, when the birds were fledging. They knew it was morning when the sun came up. What more was there to know? If Doll was going to be lost forever, Lila wanted to be right there with her, holding to the skirt of her dress. She had

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return.

Vous ne pouvez jamais savoir quand vous voyez quelqu'un pour la dernière fois.

it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them.

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.

There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of Mother and Father.

Tehching Hsieh—for me, always a true master of performance art, and one who truly represents transformation. Tehching has made five performances in his life, each of them lasting for one year. He followed this with a thirteen-year plan, in which he made art without showing it. If you ask him what he's doing now, he will say he is doing life. And this, for me, is the ultimate proof of his mastery.

Kelion?se išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti.