Quotes About Time

The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.

One can never wait too long.

There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.

If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

A história não é só o que deixamos para trás, mas é também algo que nos vai acompanhando ao longo da vida.

I'm afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increasing frequency the older I get.

Growing older meant losing a little bit of energy every single day. And one day it would be completely gone.

Vorremmo che tutto potesse ripetersi, potesse tornare ad essere precisamente come era disse Karin. Ma invecchiare significa anche imparare a difendersi dal sentimentalismo. L'amicizia deve essere messa alla prova e rinnovarsi. Forse i vecchi amori non cambiano mai. Ma l'amicizia sì.

You learn a thing or two as the years go by

Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that's nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.

He could feel his stomach churning. I'm repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don't have time for. I'm searching for the slayers of the dead and can't even manage to pay attention to the living. For a dizzying instant his entire consciousness was filled with only one urge. To take off. Flee. Disappear. Start a new life.

I'm old, he thinks. Old and used up. Every morning when I wake up I'm surprised all over again that I'm seventy years old.

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

Growing older is like walking on thinner and thinner ice.

The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to prevent its progress.

The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.

There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of really old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace. I

La vieillesse est le côté sombre de la vie et rien d'autre. Elle n'est qu'une illusion, un miroir aux alouettes.

Jos ihmisellä ei ole aikaa olla toisen kanssa, jollei hän pysty istumaan hiljaa toisen seurassa, hän hylkää, torjuu ja pilkkaa.

I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by 4:00.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.