Quotes About Time

The crone's words hung on the air as if she'd scrawled them in light.

She felt that, in London, the job would have had to be swift and anonymous, but out here she sensed she had more time to be elegant and thorough.

Are you me, or an earlier version of me, or are you all the Valravens who have ever lived since the day Caradore fell to the Magravands? There is only one, he thought.

He felt as if all the clocks in the world stopped at that moment. Would Daniel dare not come to him?

History was a tapestry long in the making, and through time the threads would change.

The moment of his fall was for closer to the present moment than millenia before.

Once I had departed Hadith's presence, my awe of her had lessened but it left a patent residue behind. The thought of the pale, enchanting woman, with her hint of hidden menace, made me feel absurdly excied. I did not want to see her again, exactly, but I wanted to think about her all the time.

This was a time of power; he could feel it vibrating in the air around him. The soul of the boy burned with a white luminance within the church. Soon, it would blaze like a beacon fire.

Nothing could be more perfect than this moment, but all too soon it is gone, burning out among the stars.

There have been many empires. None last forever.

The most cruel thing about life, she thought, was not the fact that you aged and decayed, but that you appreciated youth and vitality only when it was too late.

One moment of lapsed concentration and the tide of years would come crashing in, obliterating everything.

You didn't want time to pass. You hadn't faced your demons. You wanted to remain a child. Despite what people want to believe, time is not linear. There is no past point, future point, or now point. It's just a cycle of flux and mutability.

He experienced a feeling of descent, which became more rapid as time passed, but the fall might also have occurred for an eternity.

There will be a time when you remember this place and recognize it as a mirror for the true seat of power.

There's a time and place for everything, and you are surely in the right place at the moment.

Ah, how young you are, how beautiful. I can't bear to think what will happen to you. I can't bear the thought of watching you wither.

He has been away from the world for a long time, and a cage is no place to reacquaint yourself with reality.

We have both learned something about each other, but there is no time for thoughtful reflection.

Life moved so quickly. You didn't realize it until you paused to reflect.

A time had come, or was coming. He could feel drawing closer, feel its predator breath on his back. So he must face, and perhaps take strength from the power that had awakened here. e must access it fully. Perhaps then, the gate of his dreams and nightmares would open and the void be sensed within himself could be filled.

We do no possess the luxury of being able to wait patiently for the bud to flower.

Perhaps there comes a time when a chink in the universe opens up, and a blinding clarity comes through. It is chance, I think, not design.

Beth and I wondered how they ever managed to find time to express their creativity, and it was true all works of art we saw in these houses were frantic, doom-laden affairs.