Quotes About Time

Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Si es atal es atal.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.

So often, she had found herself transported by music. She would get lost, lose herself to the time and fullness of the tones, the way it conjured up air around her as she listened or as she played. But this, she thought, one did not get lost in this music. One was delivered by it.

There was only one child, a 21-year-old daughter, and natch

While you are waiting to die, you have to live.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday

Why do they not teach you that time is a fingersnap and an eyeblink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? PAT CONROY, My Losing Season

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.

There is never enough time for fun.

I'm terrible with patience.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

The night felt both eternal and instantaneous.

Ghost stories are how we forgive houses for daring to outlive us.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.