Quotes About Time

I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.

You been tellin' me you're a genius Since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean --Steely Dan

Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment inexorably turning into the past was to him precious, invaluable, and he witnessed its passing with a sense of inexpressible regret.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido

My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others.

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded myself as youthful, a beginner who faced immeasurable time, and I was hesitant about final decisions of any kind.

YaÅŸlanmak, geçmiÅŸten art?k korku duymuyor olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil zaten.

Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then.

Tausend Jahre kaufen nicht zurück, was eine einzige Sekunde versäumt.

How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.

Alt werden heisst nichts anderes, als keine Angst mehr haben vor der Vergangenheit.

Growing old, after all, means that one no longer fears the past."..

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

See, that's what we're like. You're brave and you're not afraid to die, but you're afraid of being late for work. That's how enslaved we are, that's how ingrained it is.

Tales momentos dramáticamente concentrados, tales momentos preñados de fatalidad, en los que una decisión destinada a persistir a lo largo de los tiempos se comprime en una única fecha, en una única hora y a menudo en un solo minuto, son raros tanto en la vida del individuo como en el curso de la Historia.

Hiçbirimize tek bir nefeslik bir yaÅŸam dahi ikinci bir kez verilmeyecek.

La noticia de la muerte del famoso Duque de Otranto no despierta, de momento, gran curiosidad en el mundo. Únicamente un humo delgado y pálido de recuerdo se levanta fugazmente de su nombre extinguido y se deshace, casi sin dejar rastro, en el cielo apacible del tiempo.

Maar alles wat niet te maken heeft met de problemen van de huidige tijd, blijft beneden onze strenge maatstaf voor wat wezenlijk is.

Ä°lkbahardaki bir nehir gibi h?zl? ak?p gidiyor ömrümüz, ak?p giden ise geri gelmiyor.