Quotes About Time

Somewhere a little girl is trapped in time, and I'm trying to set her free.

All this time, and the solution was as easy as asking for it. Wasn't that profound?

The funniest think about time is when it doesn't. In those moments when it loses itself, and becomes (as, perhaps, all things must) its opposite, it becomes a thing of even greater power than when it is in its old standard tear-down-the-mountains mood.

Which makes it life's deepest irony that children wish so deeply to grow up and the old wish nothing more than to be young again.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

plain boring (and over the last six months

Now is the time to find out as much as possible about him, about his previous relationships, about his relationships with his family. Your judgment and acceptance of him should be based on the kind of man he is, not on his skill in manipulating your ego.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. —Albert Camus

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.

Nostalgia was like a disease, one that crept in and stole the colour from the world and the time you lived in. Made for bitter people. Dangerous people, when they wanted back what never was.

Oh, we talk of progress, but what we really desire is the perpetuation of the present

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we're going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns—for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past.

They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal humans facing them. Cheating? When it comes to that, the Elder Gods are as children compared to humans. Since the time of my return, this much at least I have learned.

Time was such an element, she now believed. The stretch of existence between events, consisting of countless other events, all strung together in complex patterns of cause and effect, all laid out like images sewn onto a tapestry, creating a sequence of scenes that, once one stood back, was revealed to be co-existing. Present all at once.

The slower your path, the muddier your boots?' 'Even so,' Icarium said, nodding. 'Time is nothing like that.' 'Are you so certain? When we must wait, our minds fill with sludge, random thoughts like so much refuse. When we are driven to action, our current is swift, the water seemingly clear, cold and sharp.

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.

There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

I do not wish to slander his name, I think Netanyahu ran the country well but his time is up.

When I work on multiple projects, I'm really good at dividing my days, so I start in the morning with a clean slate.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.