Quotes About Time

Holmes rose from his chair. I am a rather busy man, Mr. Gibson, said he, and I have no time or taste for aimless conversations. I wish you good-morning.

Y qué va usted a hacer? ––pregunté. ––Fumar ––respondió––. Es un problema de tres pipas, así que le ruego que no me dirija la palabra durante cincuenta minutos.

Si un cometa chocara contra este montón de polvo nuestro y lo convirtiera en mil millones de fragmentos que salieran disparados hacia el espacio, si su ardiente aliento lamiera cada forma de vida como una polilla se marchita con una vela, todavía, al final de mil millones de años, la más diminuta partícula de nuestros cuerpos seguiría existiendo.

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain

He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.

We can't waste our time thinking about such things," she said. "Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

Un día le pregunté: ¿Papá, por qué eres tan viejo?. Él arqueó las cejas, de modo que tomaron la forma de unos pequeños paraguas caídos sobre sus ojos. Y luego suspiró largamente, movió la cabeza y dijo: No lo sé.

You'll be wrinkled yourself one day." "But some of his wrinkles are the way he's made," I said. "The back of his head is as old as the front, but it's as smooth as an egg.

Nada es más triste que el futuro, salvo, quizás, el pasado.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

So, now I've become such a big schoolmaster that my name is even mentioned in the newspapers. But I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world—only my youth is gone, the enchanting youth that walks forever on air.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

For Pythagoras as for Kepler, the two kinds of contemplation were twins; for them philosophy and religion were motivated by the same longing : to catch glimpses of eternity through the window of time.