Quotes About Time

They are preparing to go to war, and with so little time to waste, they say what they mean.

On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.

I knew I was grown up when I spent time with them and felt not just the weight of my old memories but the weight of theirs, from when they were children.

I understood things then. Somehow I became confused in the ensuing years.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between the real days.

Does the first time matter that much?

I'm stuck in a waiting room with the TV on the same channel all day, and I'm never called in for my appointment.

I tried to record each moment, but time isn't made of moments; it contains moments. There is more to it than moments.

I look at young people and marvel at their ignorance of what's coming, and the old people look at me.

I hadn't remembered that in decades. That particular quiet.

Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a woman had been working on for thirty years: sixteen pages.

We married other people, had children. I still can't believe it. I might never believe it.

Turn forty and suddenly you're too old to die tragically young.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

All our luxuries won't keep some men from dying -- it can only be a matter of time until I see it happen -- but in our lazaret death will creep silently onto the operating table or nestle between clean sheets.

Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.

A friendship can't survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up.

If I'd thought Ulfrikr wee serious in his complaints," Ulfbjorn said, "I would have told you. I wanted to spare you worrying about something that isn't worth your attention." Frithulf snorted. "Spend some more time with Isolfr and you'll realize just what a lost cause that is. You can't spare him worry, Ulfbjorn. All it does is make him worry about why you're sparing him.

Titan Clocks were made with iron and gold and human bone; they did not break, and they did not fail.

Its voice was the voice of clockwork mechanism, full of rust and oil, dust and dead spiders and fragments of macerated time.