Quotes About Time

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

La tristeza inherente al recuerdo proviene de que su objeto es el olvido.

But the second reason overshadowed the first, as the present overshadows the past, especially if it is an astonishing, urgent present in which each minute counts

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Time and tides wait for none

Yesterday is never as good as right now so enjoy every moment of the journey into TOMORROW.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it's what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.

LESSON XIII. RAIN, WIND, AND SNOW. IMAGER Watch the pretty snowflakes fall, Some are large and some are small; Look, they cover all the ground, Miles of dazzling white around; But this covering, I am told, Keeps the earth from frost and cold. Ah! and I must work alway, Life's not meant to spend in play; Every moment's fleeting fast, And our day will soon be past; If our work is truly done, It will last though ages run. Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is wind?

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?' Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.' No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it. "I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog.

My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.

Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.

Toute passe–yesterday's truth is to-day's deception, and yesterday's false inference may be to-morrow's revelation.

Causality is the way we explain the link between two successive events. Synchronicity designates the parallelism of time and meaning between psychic and psychophysical events, which scientific knowledge so far has been unable to reduce to a common principle.