Quotes About Time

She had her whole death ahead of her

For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

you could set your watch to those hoofbeats, too, and your life to the hand of Tommy—as he led the mule fondly home, to the months and the girl to come.

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors.

I could introduce myself, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. You soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.

It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet

Qué gran maldad puede encubrir la prolongación de una vida.

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

Footsteps crease the grass behind us.

even death has a heart

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling up time in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too - leave them behind. You don't know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Foi um ano para a eternidade, como 79, como 1346, para citar apenas alguns. Esqueçam a foice, raios, eu precisava de uma vassoura e de uma esfregada. E precisava de férias.

Some people ripen, some rot.

You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative.

You rob time, Fernando. How arrogant you are, taking an evening like this one as though it were some sour cherry, spitting half its flesh into the dirt. Every time you pitch yourself back into the past, you lose time. Have you so much of it to spare, my love?

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

Tomorrow is never guaranteed to anyone,young or old. Today could be the last time to see your loved ones, which is why you mustn't wait; do it today, in case tomorrow never arrives. I am sure you will be sorry you wasted the opportunity today to give a smile, a hug, a kiss, and that you were too busy to grant them their last wish.

Que vá à merda o leque, que o tempo é de brisa

The Newtonian God—the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew—died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant and this is the God who is being observed.

Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.