Quotes About Time

In his autumn before the winter comes mans last mad surge of youth.

That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly.

For time alone shews a man's honesty, But in one day you may discern his guilt.

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.

Time, sweeping through its rounds, gives birth to infinite nights and days...

All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, then bury from light; and there is nothing for which man may not look. The dreaded oath is vanquished, and the stubborn will.

But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time. Earth's might decays, the might of men decays, Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes, There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend, Or city and city; be it soon or late, Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.

Though he has watched a decent age pass by, A man will sometimes still desire the world. I swear I see no wisdom in that man. The endless hours pile up a drift of pain More unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure, When he is sunken in excessive age, You will not see his pleasure anywhere. - Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

Time is the great healer, you will see.

This play, it is generally agreed, was produced before and fairly close to the year 441 B.C.

This day will bring your birth and your destruction.

O the generations of men92 the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

Time alone can bring the just man to light— the criminal you can spot in one short day.

Live, Oedipus, as if there's no tomorrow!

O the generations of men the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

But now for all your power Time, all-seeing Time has dragged you to the light, judged your marriage monstrous from the start— the son and the father tangling, both one

Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.

This time let me be. Let me rage.

Filho caríssimo de Egeu: somente os deuses fogem aos males da velhice e aos da morte; o tempo onipotente abate tudo mais; decai a força da terra, decai o corpo; a lealdade finda e floresce a perfídia e tanto entre os amigos quanto entre as cidades não prevalece para sempre o mesmo ânimo; agora para uns, amanhã para outros, cede a doçura seu lugar ao amargor e depois volta a transformar-se em amizade

We have only a little time to please the living, But all eternity to love the dead.

sólo el tiempo muestra al hombre justo, mientras que podrías conocer al perverso en un solo día.

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay. To trace the backward way.