Quotes About Time

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Illam meae si partem animae tulit Maturior vis, quid moror altera? Nec carus aeque, nec superstes Integer. Ille dies ultramque Ducet ruinam. [Wenn meinen besten Teil der Seele die Parzen vor der Zeit abrissen, was zaudert der andere, der mir nicht lieber, nicht überlebender ist! Ein Tag stürzt uns beide ins Grab.]

To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago.

Hikayemi saati saatine yazmam gerekiyor. Az sonra deÄŸiÅŸebilirim.

On nous apprend à vivre quand la vie est passée.

Ya?ad???n?z her an, hayattan eksilmi?, harcanm?? bir and?r.

Hayattan sonra ölümdesiniz; ama hayatta iken ölmektesiniz.

Doya doya yaÅŸamak y?llar?n çokluÄŸuna deÄŸil, sizin gücünüze baÄŸl?d?r.

De waarde van dingen ligt voor ons niet zozeer in wat ze ons geven als wel in wat wij eraan uitgeven.

Hadde jeg vært lege, ville jeg til en mann av min stand og støpning like gjerne ordinert dette som enhver annen medisin for å vekke og holde ham i ånde til høyt oppe i årene og skåne ham for alderdommens angrep enda en stund. Så lenge vi bare er i utkanten av den og pulsen stadig slår -

I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii

Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

Les montagnes bougent, c'est juste qu'elles bougent lentement.

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Sugar understood the permanence of being Sugar or Lotty or Lucy or whoever you might be, trapped on a square of card to be shown at will to strangers. Whatever violations she routinely submits to in the privacy of bedroom, they vanish the moment they're over, half-forgotten with the drying of sweat. But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again

But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.

Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.

Locating a past event in measured time was something they could do with great effort, as a special favor, but Peter could tell they didn't see the point. Why should it matter exactly how many days, weeks, months or years ago a relative had died? A person was either living amongst them or in the ground.

Lose track of time for a moment –just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years.

El pasado se iba alejando como un paisaje que se va reduciendo poco a poco hasta convertirse en un punto en el espejo retrovisor mientras, delante de ella, a través del parabrisas, brillaba un futuro que reclamaba toda su atención.

To everything there is a season. There is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to plant seeds, and a time to reap.