Quotes About Time

In de fabrieken kon men nog lang oud blijven, zeker, maar men bleef er niet lang jong.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

So much space, such silence, so much time. To drift. To think. To let your mind roam anywhere it pleases. To dream. Perhaps the true luxury of our age is not the piles of goods we endlessly accumulate, but Time.

It was that magical time of year, a time to enjoy and cherish those whom she loved so dearly.

he would take someone else? If she waited

awoke, and then dozed again. When her new gift watch

The movement of history is slow and covers vast reaches of time: to cross it requires seven-league boots.

The obstinate presence of the past greedily and steadily swallows up the fragile lifetime of men.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is as well to mark their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and auscultation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.

PRONTO SE DIRÁ DE VOSOTROS, LO QUE SUELE AHORA DECIRSE DE NOSOTROS: ¡¡MURIERON!!

Hay libros que van creciendo dentro de uno a lo largo de los años en espera de la ocasión oportuna de ser escritos.

Que lo raro es vivir, figurarse la eternidad, estrenar una camisa. Que la alegría y el dolor, la música y la tarde, están en su lado y eso es todo.

Pero bien sé que sobí para decender, florescí para secarme, gozé para entristecerme, nascí para biuir, biuí para crecer, crecí para enuejecer, enuejecí para morirme.

Nunca somos lo que fuimos ayer, doctor, nunca seremos mañana los mismos de hoy... Y la vida se nos escapa imitándonos a nosotros mismos y tratando, como Kafka, de solucionar el enigma de nuestra propia identidad.

a veces venciendo los dolores que trae el tiempo:

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret. These

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret.

Pero la historia ha dado y da muchas vueltas: no es unidireccional.

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!