Quotes About Time

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

MARIE As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another. WOYZECK I saw him. MARIE You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

Es wird mir ganz angst um die Welt, wenn ich an die Ewigkeit denke.

What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today?

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older

For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

At evening the complaint of the cuckoo Grows still in the wood. The grain bends its head deeper, The red poppy. Darkening thunder drives Over the hill. The old song of the cricket Dies in the field. The leaves of the chestnut tree Stir no more. Your clothes rustle On the winding stair. The candle gleams silently In the dark room; A silver hand Puts the light out; Windless, starless night.

Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

there's so goddamn much history, it just can't help repeating itself.

There was a purpose for a person being in your life at a certain time, even if it does not last.

The summer passed, and autumn's blast Swept bleakly cold across the heather; The bright leaves browned, 'neath skies that frowned, Then whirled in circles to the ground, And strewed the paths we trod together.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.

If life, by some chance, happens to have originated, and survived, elsewhere in the universe, it will have had time to explore an unfathomable diversity of forms. Those best able to survive the passage of time, adapt to changing environments, and migrate across interstellar distances will become the most widespread. A life form that assumes digital representation, for all or part of its life cycle, will be able to travel at the speed of light.