Quotes About Time

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

Ho l'orologio che va avanti di tre ore ma non sono mai riuscito ad aggiustarlo. Così da Los Angeles mi sono trasferito a New York.

Some are born for peace and joy Some are born for sorrow But only for a day as we Shall not be here tomorrow

The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go to my friend, we walk on the grass, And the hours and moments like minutes pass.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Eternity is the opposite of a long time.

Imagine a world in which time seems to vanish and space becomes completely malleable. Where the gap between need or desire and fulfillment collapses to zero.

Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm or wearing a loud, printed blouse, she was struck by how long life was, and how much time had passed, and she wished she could go back and apologize to those closest to her, explain that she understood now. Impossible, and yet the urge to return and be a different person never lessened, grew only more acute.

She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar

Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead....Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Live life and die, we will all die at a point.

Rispetto a quella conclusa, la sofferenza ancora aperta è timida, riservata e silenziosa.

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven.

esse querido plano interior; o segredo da felicidade é não termos escrúpulos para connosco e termos o máximo de atenções para com todos os outros; de resto, o próprio tempo disse já adeus a todos os piratas da alma