Quotes About Time

it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding.

I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises.

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.

The most momentous events in life—baptisms, weddings, and funerals—don't seem to take much time, but the effects of them bind up the whole of your existence.

yet for those of his generation, the time spent in war was often clearer than the recent past. Perhaps that was because cold, and fear, and the constant presence of death had formed an acid that etched the war memories indelibly in the mind. It had taken a long time for everyday life to override the stories of past battles that had once dominated the conversation whenever his old friends gathered.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

And when you died I took you down to the river. And when I died you waited for me by the shore. So it was that time passed between us.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

It's not a real past….The past is really not that interesting.

Look," I said to the girls, and they offered a polite coo of awe. I thought of the discrete memories of my childhood—vivid moments rising above the vagueness of long stretches of unremembered time—and I wondered if they would recall this day, and the five of us together.

I want to believe that my parents found a way to bypass time that night, to compress and expand their lives together, to live out their whole lives again in their goodbye.

Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.

There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain...It was there all the time, just waiting for me.

For the young, life is an opportunity; for the old life is a journey.

There are wounds that heal in no time, there are wounds that heal with time, there are wounds that remains wounds for eternity.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

It was a reminder of what a human self was, and what a human life was: not a beautiful glass lamp just this side of being broken, or a lovely gold ring with a single dent in it. But a bettered old seashell, formed over millions of years, made to endure.

It's Sunday now for all you lonely fuckers, but for me it's always Sunday afternoon.

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple.