Quotes About Time

Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings.

All that I was, but for reflections in a cracked mirror, has been lost for a long, long time.

Some adopted new strategies for survival; they went dormant. Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms; time rendered this dust defective. It brought only disease and misery; but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good.

The sorrow never dies; it is merely pearled by time. No

I Saw Eternity the other night, he quoted, and not remembering the rest, concluded aloud with, "And it gave me quite a fright …

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted. And when you do move on and find your right person, believe me, you're not going to wish you had gotten to spend more time with Stinky the Time-Waster or Freddy Can't-Remember-to-Call.

Busy" is another word for "asshole.

The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

I'm about to make a wild, extreme, and severe relationship rule: the word "busy" is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes.

You see, it's the slow knife…the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips between the bones. That's the knife—" With her other hand, she armed the trigger device. "—that cuts deepest.

If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

A glacier consumes whole forests by inches.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.

For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound, the baby shoes dipped in bronze, the taint in the blood stream. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. —Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Only in the shadow of death do we sense the true velocity of time—while adrenaline blasts through our systems, eternity becomes tangible and all else blurs into background.

The images I'd most like to wipe away cling to life with the tenacity of weeds, while those I want to treasure fade like the blush on a rose.