Quotes About Time

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

Time didn't have meaning for him. Time had come to a standstill, the world stopped where it was, everything as still and immutable as the mountains and the sun in the sky.

You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain.

Then, Pan, when that's done, maybe I can think about us. In the right way, the way I would like to—not just because of last night or some other night but because there might be a whole lot of nights, maybe even a lifetime. I can think about it because then there will be a future that isn't measured in hours or days.

He had never come back to anything. The past was never his concern.

As with all things, time's wheel will come around once more. Then

Perhaps it was inevitable that all learning, whether born of good or bad intention, whether used to give life or to take life away, must come to light at some point in time. Perhaps

Couples and singles made a poor mix, and most of their friends had been couples. He hadn't done much to foster continuing friendships in any case, spending most of his time involved with his work and with his private, inviolate grief. He was not such good company anymore, and only Miles had had the patience and the perseverance to stay with him.

La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.

You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

was a long time ago, Sider, and now it's just old stories. We live in the here and now, not the past. But the present's not so good, either.

past, it's so now, and I would be willing to bet it'll be so forever.

Am I missing something? Everything. But I find no fault in you for that. Why should you see so clearly in a matter of minutes what I have lived with for years? It will not be easy for you now or later. It will never be easy. But it will be important. It will matter.

P?zeau Nestemata ca pe lac?tul propriilor c?tuÈ™e, în aÈ™teptarea vremurilor când se va fi aflat o cheie care s? le desferece.

Anyone with time on their hands can hatch elaborate schemes for a better future, just as anyone can sketch endless plans for a magnificent novel they never get around to writing because they are endlessly sketching plans for it. The point for Marx is not to dream of an ideal future, but to resolve the contradictions in the present which prevent a better future from coming about. When this has been achieved, there will be no more need for people like himself.

o fato de que os indivíduos esteja mais felizes significa que será mais difícil dizer o que eles estarão fazendo às cinco da tarde de uma quarta-feira

The trick is to keep cutting the present off from the past. In this way, you can try to deny the fact that the past is what we are made of, and that there would be no present without it. One of the several problems with this way of living is that it is not clear how what is reborn every moment can be said to be you. Personal identity involves a degree of continuity.

Ends and origins are not inherent in the world. It is you, not the world, who calls the shots in this respect. Wherever you make a start, however, you may be sure that an enormous amount will have happend already. And whenever you call a halt, a great deal will carry on regardless.

To call ourselves historical beings is to say that we are constitutively capable of self-transcendence, becoming at one with ourselves only in death.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The Rule Unspoken, the Rule Unwritten, The rule from the beginning of time.

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.