Quotes About Time

It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I've got a lot of great memories. The journey was great. It just probably makes you more hungry the second time. I'm a lot older and I think I appreciate it more being older now and how hard it is to get to the Final and win it.

We are in the habit of speaking of the solid earth and the eternal hills as though they, at least, were free from the vicissitudes of time and certain to furnish perpetual support for prosperous human life.

Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know . We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

One does not go back to reconquer the myth, one encounters it anew, when time quakes at its foundations under the empire of extreme danger.

Lo que más falta nos hace es creer en el mundo, así como suscitar acontecimientos, aunque sean mínimos, que escapen al control, hacer nacer nuevos espaciotiempos, aunque su superficie o su volumen sean reducidos [ ]. La capacidad de resistencia o, al contrario, la sumisión a un control, se deciden en el curso de cada tentativa.

We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy's more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.

La tâche de la vie est de faire coexister toutes les répétitions dans un espace où se distribue la différence.

Becoming is an antimemory.

In other terms: that God and the father never existed (or if they did, it was so long ago, perhaps during the Paleolithic). All they did was kill a dead man, from time immemorial.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.

I've had the blues for twenty-four years.

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.

His fingers tugged at the towel. I held tight to it, hard as a dishrag on my breasts, and shook my head. What's this? he whispered into my ear. This is the unforgiving light of morning, I whispered back. Time to drop the illusion. What illusion? That anything can be okay, I said, and kissed his cheek.

There will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.

Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money.

Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song—is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song?—

She began walking away from me, down the hallway—luminous white living rooms and sitting rooms and reading rooms blooming out on all sides—and I studied her. It was the first time we'd seen each other in almost a year. My hair was a different color—brown from red—but she didn't seem to notice. She looked exactly the same, though, not much older than I am now, although she's in her late forties. Glowing pale skin