Quotes About Time

How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.

Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself, who are you? You don't know. You'll get to know it later, when you string the beads of memory. You'll be what is most endearing, most cruel and most eternal.

Das ist so ein dichterischer Unsinn – die Reihenfolge der Tage. Es gibt keinerlei Reihenfolge, die Tage kommen, wann es ihnen passt, manchmal auch ein paar auf einmal. Es kommt auch vor, dass ein Tag lange nicht kommt. Dann lebt man in die Leere, begreift nichts und ist recht krank. Und andere Leute auch, sind auch krank, aber sie halten den Mund.

On one of the shores the cuckoo was counting my years.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

When the sun rises and shines, Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom, Only those that are ready, do. The rest have to bide their time, But all are destined to bloom, All have to fulfill that destiny. There is no need to despair.

Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.

If one wants to act, the dilemma is how and where; there is no "when?" with time running out, the time is obviously now.

Life is nothing but the little time which spend in a park called the world after the time u cannot stay there.

I hate the honesty of the moring; the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the nasty shadows.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

Oh, I've been around since the Greeks. Anyway, part of being a god is doing things to destroy yourself. It's like being a human. We're all trapped in the same economy.

He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things. —ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

That was what they were so clearly doing here: they were waiting. And not in any suspense, either, not in any anxiety as to the outcome of their vigil. They were waiting with no apparent emotion at all, as one might sit over the course of an evening, watching a candle methodically burn itself into darkness, never less than certain of the outcome, confident that the only thing standing between now and the end of waiting was time itself.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Einstein once said, "If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it,

Patience is a manifestation of trust. It conveys to the other person that he or she is worth the time.

William Gibson famously wrote, "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."1 But the past is unevenly distributed in the present too.