Quotes About Time

My body remembered the endless day;

There were those lines at the corners of his eye and mouth, if I looked for them, but that was all that betrayed his years. In everything else, he was a young man: the still-hard edges of his profile, his dark hair untouched with silver, his pale smooth unweathered cheek, his long and graceful hands.

And I was so tired of being afraid all the time. It felt like I had been afraid and afraid without stopping forever.

A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women's work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world

why are we so monumentally slow?

the years go by, we find our doors and windows. Some are always open, some never were.

Only in words on a page can it still be yesterday.

Procrastination is the most creative act there is.

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.

the years we never thought would stick to us have stuck now we are as old as people in the stories

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

The code words will change with women's subconscious anxieties. But if women want out of an expensive belief system arranged to coerce us through these messages, we will read holy oil copy knowing that it is not about the product, but is an impressively accurate portrait of the hidden demons of our time.

Of course, men don't age any better physically. They age better only in terms of social status. We misperceive in this way since our eyes are trained to see time as a flaw on women's faces where it is a mark of character on men's.

The everywhere-promoted "masking" quickly became a fetish. In all cultures and at all times, masks have represented de-individuation and dehumanization. Thieves wear masks. Executioners wear black masks so their victims cannot see them. Torturers are masked.

In pandemic time, time had ceased to be linear. It was now always pandemic time. "The middle of a pandemic" kept shifting so that it had no actual chronological meaning. It was always the eternal now, the pandemic was always everywhere around us, with no recourse to objective metrics.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

From what you say, I infer that time is the friend of the person who trains his mind to follow positive thought-habits and the enemy of the person who drifts into negative thought-habits.

One's dominating desires can be crystallized into their physical equivalents through definiteness of purpose backed by definiteness of plans with the aid of rhythm and time

The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.

PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.

definite time in which to attain that goal.