Quotes About Time

I leaned over to cover him with the blanket he had been promising to give away to charity for years, and I kissed his forehead, as if by doing so I could protect him from the invisible threads that kept him away from me, from that tiny apartment, and from my memories. As if I believed that with that kiss I could deceive time and convince it to pass us by, to return some other day, some other life.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.

Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

Te sorprendería cómo uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro las respuestas que están en el pasado.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Time cures all, I thought, except the truth.

Don't you remember? Life is waiting for us...' ' I'm waiting for you... Memories are all I have waiting for me.

El tiempo, comprendió, siempre fluye con velocidad inversa a la necesidad de quien lo vive. Volvió

El tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez hace con el alma. Lo pudre.

To truly hate is an act one learns with time

El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuanto más vacío está. Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en su estación.

La mayoría de los mortales nunca llegamos a conocer nuestro verdadero destino; simplemente somos atropellados por él. Para cuando levantamos la cabeza y lo vemos alejarse por la carretera ya es tarde, y el resto del camino lo tenemos que hacer por la cuneta de que aquello que los soñadores llaman madurez.

Te mi je no?i Mijail rekao da on misli da nam život svima priskrbi nekoliko rijetkih trenutaka ?iste sre?e. Katkad je to samo nekoliko dana ili tjedana. Katkad godine. Sve ovisi o našoj sudbini. Uspomena na te trenutke prati nas zauvijek i pretvara se u zemlju uspomena u koju se pokušavamo vratiti ostatak života, bezuspješno.

You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Some years had passed, but one never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

El mar lo devuelve todo después de un tiempo, especialmente los recuerdos.

Time is a great healer. I never felt that Julian hated him. Perhaps that would have been better. I got the impression that he lost all respect for the hatter as a result of all those scenes. Julian spoke about it as if it didn't matter to him, as if it were part of a past he had left behind, but these things are never forgotten. The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

No sé ahora dónde leí una vez que en el fondo nunca hemos sido el de antes, que sólo recordmos lo que nunca sucedió...

El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. (…) Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir por él.