Quotes About Time

With such a limited span of days, some will live through sadder times than others. I'm sorry that you are here now. I am sorry you were tricked into this predicament. You were appointed captains of a sinking vessel. I have a longer lifespan than you. I have seen much. Seasons of order degenerate into chaos. Devastation comes and goes. I await the next hour when I am needed. It always comes.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

The question is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can't taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.

You stopped for food on the way, Leyten," Sigzil said. "Even Rock beat your time, and he was skipping like a girl the last third." "Was Horneater dance of victory," Rock said from near Leyten. "Is very manly.

It is strange," the man said. "People get such a small amount of time. So many I've known say it—as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.

Giving her ten thousand Lifeless is enough to make even me consider my drunk-monkey theory." "The one who chooses names and titles of the Returned?" "Exactly," Lightsong said. "I've actually considered expanding the theory. I am now proposing to believe that God-or the universe, or time, or whatever you think controls all of this-is all really just a drunk monkey.

We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

It had been eight years. The pain of loss was still there. It never went away. It just got buried in time, like a rock slowly being covered over by dirt.

That was one nice thing about books and notes. They could always wait for another time.

When good men disobeyed, it was time to look at your orders.