Quotes About Time

Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.

Time can fly as fast as it wants, but they will take their pleasant time about living.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

smile. "It's growing old that's painful. That's when reality hits. You find yourself with special memories that have nowhere to go and dreams that will never be fulfilled, and it doesn't matter how whimsical or impossible those dreams were. While they were yours, they were lovely." She sighed. "At my age, there isn't much point left in dreaming. That's the painful part.

You have a fuchsia heart. And a fuchsia heart doesn't die, it simply bides its time, taking a backseat to pragmatism, all while leaking helpless drops of color here and there. Hence, teal gables, turquoise earrings, and saffron scarves.

A person couldn't wipe out the memories that shaped her being. She was a blend of past, present, and future.

Não existe vantagem alguma em fazer as coisas do dia para a noite, porque para fazer direito precisamos de planejamento.

Still there were times, as Jill whirled through her final preparations, when Emily stood watching her, wondering where the years had gone, wishing them back.

Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.

By six-twenty she'd begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn't get through if he tried.

you'd think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.

What if the past won't stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?

It was too early in the day for this kind of discussion – but really, was it ever too early to discuss matters of the heart? What if the moment passed and never returned?

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life .

One day there was a misunderstanding about our appointment and when I called for Modigliani, I found him out - but I decided to wait for him a few minutes. I held an armful of red roses. The window, which was above the locked gates of the studio, was open. To while away the time, I started to throw the flowers into the studio. Modigliani didn't come and I left. --Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani

Proust said we read to know ourselves; there are many more selves to know than can come to light in our ordinary lives. When we and the writer meet on the page our silent communion crosses centuries.

When the Little Prince asks the Fox how they can become friends he says if they sit in silence at opposite ends of a field every day, after a long time they will be friends.

life can change in a heartbeat. There's no point in wasting time doing something you don't love. You have to live for the moment

ten years since he'd seen Sara, and

We'd make fewer mistakes if we didn't have to wait for time and distance to give us clarity.

time warp. But I was wrong. Something has changed." He

The sky sinks slowly inside the past.