Quotes About Time

As one got older, cold became one's enemy, as if the grave was teasing already.

Or, in the intriguing words of existential philosopher Gabriel Marcel, hope is "a piercing through time … a kind of memory of the future.

Let's slide some more," Willie suggested to wipe away her sadness. They were holding hands and slide-skating on the ice with Booboo at their heels when Marla suddenly said, "Oops, it's over an hour. I've got to go." "Like Cinderella," he said. "So? Aren't you the frog prince?

asked if he wants to repeat 6th grade Garry says "That's okay. I've got to go to school 'til I'm 16 anyway. What's the difference what grade I'm in when I get done?

Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal—someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever." He

Hay momento que definen nuestra existencia, momentos que, si los reconocemos, suponen un giro definitivo en nuestra vida. Como perlas en un hilo, la acumulación de tales momentos, con el tiempo, constituyen la esencia de nuestra existencia, proporcionándonos consuelo cuando nuestro fin se acerca.

Beauty is fleeting. We must enjoy what we have before time steals it away.

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

The most difficult problem is not that of wanting to learn. It is time. With enough time you might learn to listen and to walk. And with enough time I would listen to you, and walk your way without undoing mine. With sufficient time everything will again belong to everybody. We will be able to exist in our life, and at the same time in the life of all persons who were once things, and in the life of things that later are to be persons.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Make haste slowly

Tudo volta. E voltam mais bonitas, mais maduras, voltam quando tem de voltar, voltam quando é pra ser.

Ah, mas tudo bem. Com o tempo, todo mundo se acostuma. As pessoas esquecem umas das outras com tanta facilidade. Como é mesmo que minha mãe dizia? Quem não é visto, não é lembrado. Longe dos olhos, longe do coração. Pois é.

A vida é uma ponte entre dois nadas, e tenho pressa.

Daqui a 50 anos eu ainda vou saber seu nome e vou me lembrar de todas as vezes que você me fez sorrir. Na minha memória, tão congestionada - e no meu coração - tão cheio de marcas e poços - você ocupa um dos lugares mais bonitos.

E me dá uma saudade irracional de você. Uma vontade de chegar perto, de só chegar perto, te olhar sem dizer nada, talvez recitar livros, quem sabe só olhar estrelas… dizer que te considero – pode ser por mais um mês, por mais um ano, ou quem sabe por uma vida – e que hoje, só por hoje ou a partir de hoje (de ontem, de sempre e de nunca), é sincero.

quero que daqui pra frente a vida seja hoje. A vida não é adiável.

When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn't know you were having them.

Your goal is not to stick to a given schedule at all costs; it's instead to maintain, at all times, a thoughtful say in what you're doing with your time going forward—even

Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?

Because digital minimalists spend so much less time connected than their peers, it's easy to think of their lifestyle as extreme, but the minimalist would argue that this perception is backward: what's extreme is how much time everyone else spends staring at their screens.

It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life.

To do real good physics work, you do need absolute solid lengths of time … it needs a lot of concentration … if you have a job administrating anything, you don't have the time. So I have invented another myth for myself: that I'm irresponsible. I'm actively irresponsible. I tell everyone I don't do anything. If anyone asks me to be on a committee for admissions, "no," I tell them: I'm irresponsible.