Quotes About Time

As I have previously said, the chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career. Which fact is very gratifying and reassuring. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.

Yet a little while, she thought, and I shall be lying on a bed like that! And what shall I have lived for? What is the meaning of it? The riddle of life itself was killing her, and she seemed to drown in a sea of inexpressible sorrow.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Naarmate de stilte langer duurde, nam de pijn toe. De tijd heelt niet alle wonden, ontdekte hij, de tijd scheurt wonden open, zorgt voor vergiftigingen en ontstekingen. De dood maakt misschien een einde aan alle pijn, de tijd laat dat na.

Geluk werd tegenwoordige tijd en geluk dat tegenwoordige tijd is geworden is angstaanjagend geluk, geluk in de verleden tijd of in de toekomende tijd is stukken draaglijker.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.

Here was the same sense of awe and mystery, and the sadness of the irrevocably vanished past. Yet the scale here was so much greater, both in time and in space, that the mind was unable to do it justice; after a while, it ceased to respond. Norton wondered if, sooner of later, he would take even Rama for granted.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.

It was some kind of cosmic switching device, routing the traffic of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space and time. He was passing through a Grand Central Station of the galaxy.

Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation.

History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur." As

Enjoy them while you may," answered Rashaverak gently. "They will not be yours for long." It was advice that might have been given to any parent in any age: but now it contained a threat and a terror it had never held before.

Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done

A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories, and he asks only for rest—or a new beginning.

And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners.

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.

He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time