Quotes About Time

Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.

Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger there, as if still expecting to see my blond hair and tight skin, my hands with long, straight fingers. Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all of your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.

It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.

All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

I've always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.

The golden moments ?n the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

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They sat in silence, watching the river flow in the same direction it always had, a ribbon connecting the past with the present, and a reminder that time moved on regardless of whether you wanted it too.

impermanence of things and how nothing stayed the same no matter how much you wanted it to.

But time changed all things, oxidizing friendships like old copper pots, so they no longer saw their reflection in each other's faces.

Choosing is hard, but not choosing is, in my view, much more debilitating. Sitting in limbo – not fully in your marriage and not out of it, looking at piles of pictures sitting on the floor rather than displaying them on a wall, letting time pass in a job you don't love but are reluctant to leave – and the non-choices are what will eat away at you.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.

Money isn't everything," Eva said knowingly. "Perhaps you'll die before you can enjoy it." "Perhaps you'll die before you've even lived," Maja countered.

Grieving is something we have to live with, it's a constant battle. And the enemy is the rest of our lives. All those nights. All those hours.

När hjulet kom, gick allting på tok för fort för oss.

Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.