Quotes About Time

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Sleep not, dream not; this bright dayWill not, cannot last for aye;Bliss like thine is bought by yearsDark with torment and with tears.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Pain—has an Element of Blank—It cannot recollectWhen it begun—or if there wereA time when it was not—

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.

It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.

The first question to ask about your next meeting; is this meeting really necessary?

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London ' I'll go and do it.

The facts will be known to our children's children, though not to us.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

I can't tell anymore. Which is long and which short, the river flowing east or thoughts farewell brings on?

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

The dance is four-dimensional art in that it moves concretely in both space and time. For the onlooker, it is an art largely of visual space combined with time. But for the dancer, and this is more important, the dance is more a muscular than a visual space rhythm, a muscular time, a muscular movement and balance. Dancing is not animated sculpture, it is kinesthetic.

After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports to watch, so who had time for anything else?