Quotes About Time

Things might look bad now, but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

I'm not asking for miracles, Seth, just a little info when you get a chance. That's all.

At precisely zero hours UT, or midnight Universal Time, the image of the tortured man erupted onto the world's most popular Web site. The first six words he spoke would be remembered forever by everyone who heard them. "I am dead. I was murdered."

One of the most American of attributes: the inability to believe that time is real. It is this inability which makes them so romantic about the nature of society, and it is this inability which has led them into a total confusion about the nature of experience.

It is a sentimental error ... to believe that the past is dead.

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had.

Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.

Some great crisis in its fate may stamp upon a race marks which neither lapse of time nor change of circumstance seem able wholly to efface; and empires may rise from barbarism to civilization and sink again from civilization into barbarism, within periods so brief that we may take it as certain, whatever be our opinion as to the transmission of acquired faculties, that no hereditary influence has had time to operate.

Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not.

One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.

The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallized beside the road.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea. Ten thousand years in the future, long after the Côte d'Azur had been abandoned, the first explorers would puzzle over these empty pits, with their eroded frescoes of tritons and stylized fish, inexplicably hauled up the mountainsides like aquatic sundials or the altars of a bizarre religion devised by a race of visionary geometers.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar.

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait.

Old men alone have time to love; young men are rowing ... the galleys of ambition.

His life flowed soundless as the sands of an hour-glass.

Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.