Quotes About Time

In time I came to view that event the way you view a faded vacation photo. It's just someplace you went a long time ago.

Four years? She'd been gone from this world as long as she'd been in it.

Every one knows they 're going to die, but nobody believes it... If we did, we would do things differently.

All caves begin with rain. The rain mixes with gas. The new acidic water eats through rocks, and tiny fractures grow into passageways. Eventually—after many thousands of years—these passageways might create an opening large enough for a man.

Vesna Esta Holicia, until you shine again, into vision, into the real world. Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

No matter where I go, sadness follows. No matter how much time passes it won't go away. You get only one heart when you're born, and you can't turn it in or get it repaired. The only thing that fills it is more sadness. I'm surprised there's any room left in there at all.

It's wrong. I know, it's wrong to give up. But sometimes life just seems to be going on for such a long time." The

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things

with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

You feel a love you know you will never be able to adequately explain or express to him, a love that flows one way, down the generations, not in reverse, and is understood and reciprocated only when time has made of a younger generation an older one.

Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade. •

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

and all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

LATER THAT DAY, in the evening, Nadia's time, the sun having slipped below her horizon, it was morning in the San Diego, California, locality of La Jolla, where an old man lived by the sea, or rather on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.