Quotes About Time

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

And this is the moment where I went wrong. This is the gut-churning, if-only instant. If I could go back in time, that's the moment I would march up to myself and say severely, Poppy, priorities . But you don't realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

You can't go back in time and do life a different way.

Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten. He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?

A relationship isn't a snapshot. It's a journey

We should confide in each other. We shouldn't keep things fro each other. I mean, we've known each other for over twenty years,for God's sake.

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out...My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff...If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too.

Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita così: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore è solo... un involucro»

A relationship isn't a snapshot." He nods down at the phone. "It's a journey.

Whatever's gone before, life's too short not to make amends. Life's too short to bear a grudge.

But if you're a lawyer at Carter Spink, you don't sit around. Not when every six minutes of your time is worth money. If I let six minutes of time tick away, I've lost the firm £50. Twelve minutes, £100. Eighteen minutes, £150. And the truth is, you get used to measuring your life in little chunks. And you get used to working. All the time.

New York 10022 October

You haven't been home before eleven this week!" This is what I mean by an insatiable interest. She probably has all my details logged somewhere in a little book.

We spend all weekend cooking.

Funny how memories come back - sometimes in dribs and drabs, sometimes in enormous sweeps.

But isn't that what every young couple thinks, and then suddenly, boom, they're old and bitter and not looking at each other properly?

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Weep not, everything must have its day.

Far-stretching, endless Time Brings forth all hidden things, And buries that which once did shine. The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered; And let none say, It cannot happen here.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.