Quotes About Time

The only thing harder than seeing yourself grow old is seeing the people you've loved grow old.

Spring, in addition to many other things, is a time for renewal of memories that may have grown dim during the winter,

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.

Why is time more important than money? There is no time lottery where you can hope to win an extra million days ...

How short life would be if certain unpleasant moments didn't make it feel endless!

Todas las fotografías son espejos de lo que fuimos, pero no de lo que somos ni de lo que seremos.

Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

Creo que esa falta esencial de recuerdos, en mi caso, no provenía de una falta de memoria: creo que mi pensamiento, ocupado en adivinar el futuro, tan lleno de imágenes, no podía demorarse en el pasado.

Yo sentía el transcurso, la esencia del tiempo en sus repeticiones. Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

Gabriela has been dreaming about her and about a pair of shoes for quite some time.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Lifetimes went past. With the critical mass of hardly more than the thought of a thought I kept on, headlong, to vanishing point. I looked for an end, for some dimension to hold hard and resist. But I still exist.

Ignite the flares, connect the phones, wind all the clocks; the sun goes rusty like a medal in its box - collect it from the loft. Peg out the stars, replace the bulbs of Jupiter and Mars. A man like that takes something with him when he dies, but he has wept the coins that rested on his eyes, eased out the stopper from the mouthpiece of the cave, exhumed his own white body from the grave.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

Historia naszego ?ycia, a czasem i ?mierci, jest zapisana w ko?ciach.

As you are now, so I once was As I am now, so will you be

The time we take out, whether it is to do mathematics or music, or to read Plato or Jane Austen, is time to be cherished.

But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.

Why should I waste my time going to college and teaching those goddam professors what I know?

You clock in to the clock. You clock out to the clock. You come home to the clock. You eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock . . . You do that for forty years of your life, you retire, what do they fucking give you? A clock!

But nostalgia was the first disease associated with time, its victims longing for days gone by.7

And thus the museum took on a new role, and became a symbol and demonstration of time: time passing, time tracked, time catalogued. In some form at least, a museum is merely a chronology of its specialism, a consistent desire to order and explain events beyond randomness.