Quotes About Time

If you're honest with yourself, you can still feel the terrible weight of time pressing on you; that awful, relentless, bodily corruption that is happening constantly to us all.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost

Il tempo è un galantuomo

Eight months passed before they were actually charged with murder: That was how long it took to develop the "evidence." In the United States, suspects typically cannot be held more than 72 hours without being charged.

Rather than rushing to tear things down during the architectural vandalism period of the 1950s and '60s, Savannah had preserved its link with the past, which in a personal way spoke to Constance and her own peculiar connection to distant times.

RELIQUARY The bones of saints are praised above their flesh, That pale rejected garment of their lives In which they walked despised, uncanonized. Brooding upon the marble bones of time Men read strange sanctity in lost events, Hold requiem mass for murdered yesterdays, And in the dust of actions once reviled Find symbols traced, and freeze them into stone.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)

Have you ever noticed that you have never left here, except in your mind? When you remember the past, you are not actually in the past. Your remembering is happening here. When you think about the future, that future projection is completely here. And when you get to the future, it's here. It's no longer the future.

A good ritual is meant to evoke the mystery of being, the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of life, the mystery of God. It's meant to evoke that sense of eternity that shines through the latticework of time and space. That's really what ritual is for—to put us in touch with that sense of eternity, with the sense of the sacred.

It's the way spirit moves in the world of time and space. That's what a human body-mind is: an extension of spirit in time and space.

Once again, eternity is peering through the latticework of time and space, and this sense of eternal stillness and deep freedom is what the iconic image of the seated Buddha conveys. What this image doesn't convey is a sense of humanity, of a real flesh-and-blood human being. But in the Jesus story, it's as if the still point that the image of the Buddha evokes within us becomes

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.

Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, he dieth not, unless the appointed time, the limit of his life's span, coincide; nor does the man who by the hearth at home sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

But time growing old teaches all things.

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.