Quotes About Time

Più sgobbava - la sua fatica era un'immagine del tempo che divora se stesso - meno sembrava possedere.

The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years. When it is compressed into fifteen minutes, the pace is too fast, and growing pains are the reult.

There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.

Les objets que nous voyons habituellement ne nous font pas apercevoir de la rapidité de notre vie; ils vieillissent avec nous d'une vieillesse insensible : mais ce sont ceux que nous revoyons tout à coup après les avoir perdus quelques années de vue, qui nous avertissent de la vitesse avec laquelle s'écoule le fleuve de nos jours.

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Nicht das ich Hanna vergessen hätte. Aber irgendwann hörte die Erinnerung auf, mich zu begleiten.

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nevertheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

A veces, un final doloroso hace que el recuerdo traicione la felicidad pasada. A lo mejor es que la única felicidad verdadera es la que dura siempre.

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?

What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I am.' She snuggled against his side. 'I know that feeling. But don't we make progress in fits and starts? Nothing happens for a long time, then suddenly we get a surprise, have an encounter, reach a decision point, and we're no longer the same as we were before.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

It's hard to guess ages when you're not that old yourself and won't be anytime soon. ?? ????? ????? ???? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ??? ???.

Man schätzt das Alter schwer, das man noch nicht hinter sich hat oder auf sich zukommen sieht.

Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewusst und unerkannt? Aber was ist ein unbewusster und unerkannter Schmerz?

Esa tristeza, ¿no será la tristeza pura? ¿Es eso lo que nos sobreviene cuando, al mirar atrás, los recuerdos hermosos se nos vuelven quebradizos, al ver que aquella felicidad no se alimentaba sólo de la situación del momento, sino de una promesa que no se cumplió?

Zo moet het met oude echtparen gaan, dacht ik; voor haar blijft in de oude man de jonge bewaard en voor hem de schoonheid en gratie van de jonge vrouw in de oude. (184)

I was astonished at how much older literature can actually be read as if it were contemporary.

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

A veces un final doloroso hace que el recuerdo traicione la felicidad pasada. A lo mejor es que la única felicidad verdadera es la que dura siempre. Porque sólo puede tener un final doloroso lo que ya era doloroso de por sí, aunque no fuéramos conscientes de ello, aunque lo ignorásemos. Pero un dolor inconsciente e ignorado ¿es dolor?

Los estratos de nuestra vida reposan tan juntos los unos sobre los otros que en lo actual siempre advertimos la presencia de lo antiguo, y no como algo desechado y acabado, sino presente y vívido.