Quotes About Time

23] Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the present; and if we think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end. [78] So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.

Que chacun examine ses pensées ; il les trouvera toujours occupées au passé et à l'avenir. Nous ne pensons presque point au temps présent ; et si nous y pensons, ce n'est que pour en prendre la lumière pour disposer de l'avenir. Le présent n'est jamais notre fin ; le passé et le présent sont nos moyens ; le seul avenir est notre fin. Ainsi nous ne vivons jamais ; mais nous espérons vivre ( pensées )

Notre durée vaine et chétive

that the closed mem6 signified 600 years. But the time was foretold clearly, while the manner was figurative.

Fascinatio nugacitatis - Pentru ca patima s? nu ne vat?me, s? tr?im ca ÅŸi cum n-am avea decât opt zile de tr?it.

La verdad está tan obnubilada en este tiempo y la mentira tan sentada que, a menos de amar la verdad, ya no es posible conocerla.

The future alone is our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

One says, It is two hours ago; the other says, It is only three-quarters of an hour. I look at my watch, and say to the one, You are weary, and to the other, Time gallops with you; for it is only an hour and a half ago, and I laugh at those who tell me that time goes slowly with me, and that I judge by imagination. They do not know that I judge by my watch.

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the Sun, the Wind or the Rain. We can be like they are. Come on, baby, don't fear the Reaper.

A strange thing has happened as I've aged; I have felt my parents' love for me more strongly every year.

The term "middle age" fits where we are, for I see in him both the young man I fell in love with and the old one he will be. I see my own dear husband and I am struck by how deeply I love him, by how many times I have nearly lost him—and by how lost I would be without him.

This growing old is the great test, you know— the challenge we've been preparing for all along.

I have come to accept that at present I have only a partial view of reality; there are answers I will not be given until I leave this life. I know that my Lord is the God of wheat fields and oak trees, of mountains and valleys, and that His answers, like His works, often require time.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

The longer you live, the better you get.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking...