Quotes About Time

I feel I am not suited for this life," Emily confessed. "I have devoted months to growing a single carrot and I have no time to read.

Visto che siamo al mondo, stiamo tutti morendo.

Alabaster eyed Emily's still growing stomach. "How many months are you along now?" "Perhaps eleven. I'm not sure. Soon, I shall be able to roll from Upper Foglands to town." "I feel you have lived here longer than eleven months, and you were with child when you arrived. Is it possible your unborn child is waiting for you to be married?" "No, I could never have a child so conventional," Emily said.

A great textile, like the William Morris Strawberry Thief, is a piece of art, but it takes a lot of time to make a piece of art. It isn't simply design either. You have to understand the fabrics and what they can bear. You have to understand the dyeing process and how to achieve certain colors and what will make the color last through the ages. If you make a mistake, you might have to begin again.

Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Every person you knew, every person you loved even, did not have to consume you for the time to have been worthwhile.

Beneath Sadie's eyes were barely perceptible crescents, but then, she'd had these as a kid too. Still, he felt she seemed tired. Sam looked at Sadie, and he thought, This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.

It gets more exciting," Imogen assured her. "You must be patient, Galina." "If it takes too long, I'll be dead," Nana replied.

anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.

At a certain age—in Sadie's case, thirty-four—there comes a time when life largely consists of having meals with old friends who are passing through town.

Life is very long, she thought, unless it is not.

Life is very long, unless it is not.

Gabrielle Zevin

The score had stood so long, it had burned into the monitor.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently

You are dying. No, that came out wrong. What you meant to express was the existential grief that comes with the knowledge that all things die. You are not dying, except insofar as you have always been dying.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

come on, sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me. —RUMI

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is equally about love.