Quotes About Time

A million silent arguments rattled around my head. Why is this not enough for you? Why am I not enough for you? Why could you not have confided in me? If we'd had more time, would this have been different?

Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations.

The last time you pick up your child. The last time you hug a parent. The last time you cook dinner in a house full of the people you love.

The problem with getting older was not so much that one got stuck on the past, Vivi often thought, but that there was so much more of the past to get lost in.

This is exactly the time you have to think about it. This is the time when, like it or not, you finally have to work out what you are going to do with the rest of your life.

Sa stii, iubita mea, ca insemnez fiecare zi, nu ca pe inca una in care am reusit sa supravietuiesc, cum fac camarazii mei, ci multumind Celui de Sus ca fiecare zi inseamna ca au mai trecut douazeci si patru de ore pana cand am sa ma intorc la tine.

I think people get bored of grief', said Nathasha. 'It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time - six months, maybe - and then they get faintly irritated that you're not "better". It's like you are being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.

hand. This little patch of paper suddenly bore a whole heap of responsibility. I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Time flew, and each ended the night full and happy, with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has been understood by someone else, and that there might just be someone out there who will only ever see the best in you.

I'm going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.

It's just a few days out of my life.

With every mile, real life moved steadily toward them like an encroaching tide: cold, unstoppable.

Everything takes time, Will. And that's something your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your wag almost instantaneously.

And she's ancient. How old must she be? Twenty-seven? Twenty-eight?

I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.' F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

Everything takes time, Will," she said, placing her hand briefly on his arm. "And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida rea) solo existe en otro lugar.

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Tender Is the Night

You know," she said, "when you get to my age, the pile of regrets becomes so huge it can obscure the view terribly.

There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes.

I think people get bored of grief,' said Natasha. 'It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time – six months, maybe – and then they get faintly irritated that you're not "better". It's like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.' 'Yes!

Time with my family was precious and I wouldn't ruin it by feeling sad.

de repente tive a sensação de ver o tempo passar e de perder grande parte dele nas pequenas idas e vindas pelo mesmo caminho.