Quotes About Time

might be a later addition.

My story hurries me on.

But we only have one path across the mire of remembrance in general.

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

You put your time where your priority is.

Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time

How can I put it poetically? Time is the life jacket of truth; it always brings it to the surface

Menschen, die sich erinnern, leben nicht in der Vergangenheit.

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

So if it takes 2 days to destroy Syria then it would take 1 hour for Tunisia and 28 minutes for Norway. Only China would stall us for 6 days. (On the quote of EU minister Egemen Bagis: "If we were so keen on war we could destroy Syria. Our military provess is capable of destroying Syria in a few hours")

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.

Old butterflies should have the sense to die while the summer sun is shining

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?

Najbolje fotografije uvijek ostanu nesnimljene. To je u redu. Ne treba sve završiti na fotografiji. Ono što je najvažnije treba da ostane u sje?anju.

Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?

In a hospital the most important fact about us is the year of our birth. But in our lives that year is of no particular importance. I had to grow old to understand that. Everyone dies young.

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.

Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Injustice never rules forever.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.