Quotes About Time

You show by where you go and by the use of your time what's most important.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones—another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure—they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!

Nothing stays or holds or keeps where there is growth, he somehow perceived vaguely but truly. Great Caesar dead and turned to clay stopped no hole to keep the wind away. Dead Caesar was nothing but a tiresome bit of print in a book that schoolboys study for awhile and then forget. The Ambersons had passed, and the new people would pass, and the new people that came after them, and then the next new ones, and the next—and the next—

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones- they had time for everything: time to think, time to talk, time to read,time to wait for a lady!

Useless to tell myself that a dream and the memory of yesterday are the same thing

En todas las ficciones, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas, opta por una y elimina las otras; en la del casi inextricable Ts'ui Pên, opta simultáneamente por todas. Crea, así, diversos porvenires, diversos tiempos, que también proliferan y se bifurcan.

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel

Were all times captives, hostages of Eternity

They had the boastful, dead eternity of bronze monuments and marble columns.

Minila bodo leta, veliko pomembnih let. Mene tedaj že ne bo ve?. ?asi o?etov in dedov se ne bodo vrnili, kar pravzaprav niti ni pomembno in si niti tega ne želim. Zagotovo pa bodo ponovno vzniknile tako dolgo zatajevane plemenitost, ustvarjalnost in veli?ina. To bo obdobje velikih vrednot. Vaše življenje bo postalo bogato in plodno kot še nikoli doslej... Tedaj se spomnite name.

Besides, he had more serious worries. He had suspected for some time that he suffered from an incurable disease.

Nadie hace la historia, la historia no se ve, como no se ve crecer la hierba .

Ma che cos'è la storia? È un dar principio a lavori secolari per riuscire a poco a poco a risolvere il mistero della morte e a vincerla un giorno.

No one makes history, it is not visible, just as it is impossible to see grass grow.

It's not their fault. It's because they've been taught that 'Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.' Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there's no time left for the rest of it to come true.

Dónde estaban los recuerdos puros? En casi todos se funden impresiones de otras épocas que se les superponen y les confieren una realidad distinta. Los recuerdos no existen: es otra vida revivida con otra personalidad, y que en parte es consecuencia de esos mismos recuerdos. No se puede invertir el sentido del tiempo, a menos que se viva con los ojos cerrados y los oídos sordos.

Les gens perdent leur temps à vivre, alors, il ne leur en reste plus pour travailler.

Le plus clair de mon temps, dit Colin, je le passe à l'obscurcir. - Pourquoi? demanda plus bas le directeur. - Parce que la lumière me gène, dit Colin.

Some dreams linger for years. And some last forever.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...