Quotes About Time

If physicists want to develop a time machine, they should explore fear. Fear dilates and compresses time without limit. For desperate people awaiting rescue, every instant stretches into unendurable agony; for those awaiting death by cancer, the earth spins relentlessly, shortening the days until they pass like fanned pages in a book. Trapped in our bodies, perception is all, and the engine of perception is hunger for life.

William Faulkner ever said wasn't written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it's not even past.

I know things are changing, but they don't change everywhere at the same speed. Down here time moves on the different clock. Down here it's still forty years ago, in some ways.

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Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time," he said.

In space, distance was time, and time was distance.

The significance of the chronometer cannot be overstated. Its effect on the world rivals that of any other invention, including the printing press and the microchip.

The potential problem with these arrangements is that the exchange clocks, like so many extremely accurate clocks in this world, receive their time signal from GPS.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

La vida es una broma solo que tú vas a llegar al final del chiste... antes

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

she would abuse me, then the very next day hug me or tell me how I was her baby and she loved me blah, blah. I think it worked like any abusive relationship . . . a person feels trapped, nowhere to go . . . they are abused and then the abuser reins them back in with kindness and the person being abused settles, not quite thinking about the next time they are beat etc. just relieved the abuse is over (for now). My mother was a ticking time bomb . . .

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We need to figure out what's best," she said. "Do you think you can give us some time, maybe wait this out? You'll be eighteen in four years.

Telling someone that they'll be all right," Nora told me over coffee one time, "is the last thing anyone wants to hear. Sure, things will get better. Time will diminish the pain. But things will never be all right.

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was a magnificent structure for its time and place—a sanitarium of three stories, plus a basement. Dormer windows jutted over a porch that ran the full length; a dark, oak staircase in the grand foyer dominated the interior. There was even a kitchen, an office, and of course, the Treatment Room.

But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. —STEVEN WRIGHT

Time goes, you say? ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.

He loves it all anyway, as his first life as a teenager never allowed. Everything is different this time. On Sundays his mother's lengthy grace doesn't grate on him. This time he savors each one At high school he recalls who wrote poetry in Klingon, who sold dope, who was really gay and thought nobody knew. Friends, long forgotten by his late forties. As they pass by him again, he has a sad appreciation of how fleeting it all is.

There's no such thing as forever.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?