Quotes About Time

Lo que puede pasar en unos pocos minutos puede cambiarte para siempre.

Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuos stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

It has been said ... that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not -- it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

This time she knew what it was like to hold someone for years in your memory instead of in your arms. She knew how features blurred, voices faded, touches dissolved. So she looked at Robbie and tried to imprint him on her memory, to be able to take him out when she was alone and felt strong enough. When she was safe, and able to think about this moment when she had been perfectly loved and perfectly alone.

THE GATE TO FUTURES PAST (#2)*

Only three weeks. Is that enough time to fix a person?

Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there.

That's the secret of life--by the time you know, it's too late.

My meeting with my alimentatore was at noon

People say time heals wounds, but they are wrong. It doesn't heal at all. You just learn to live with it. When she died, we lost a part of our hearts.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

The [bird's] nest with its streamers was a final unbidden touch: It was what human hands had not brought to the building, and could not remove. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: It had been complicated, and thereby perfected, by what time had done to it.

It's true what they say: Time flies when you're having fun.

The lack of a free weekend keeps more blockbusters bestsellers from being written than you can imagine.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

She remembers that today is Sunday, which six days out of seven is not true.

A big, complicated, fast marriage like ours is just like those big fast delicate motors—it's 25% of the time in the shop.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

Sometimes when the year grinds to its end and the new term begins I feel I'm living the life of a fruit fly - the endless ephemeral cycle, each new semester a "fresh start" that leads to the same moribund conclusions.

One of the fashionable coaching slogans of the time was 'peripheral vision', a term which attracted Rowe's derision. 'You know what that means? It means seeing out of your arse,' said Rowe

Love is a bruise. The best way to let it heal is to stop touching it.

Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field...

De nouveau il entendit la porte s'ouvrir, et, calme, du fond de la chambre, il vit venir à lui sa dernière heure.

In growing older, we become our parents.