Quotes About Time

The psychohistoric trend of a planet-full of people contains a huge inertia. To be changed it must be met with something possessing a similar inertia. Either as many people must be concerned, or if the number of people be relatively small, enormous time for change must be allowed. Do you understand?

Quieres ver el libro que traigo? -dijo Harlan. - ¿Es posible que lleves esos libros encima? - ¿Por qué no? El viaje en la cabina lleva bastante tiempo. No hay ninguna necesidad de desperdiciarlo.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. --Isaac Asimov

Después de 10 años de matrimonio era todavía lo suficientemente estúpido como para seguir enamorado de ella.

There will be other crises in the time to come when money power has become as dead a force as religion is now. Let my successors solve those new problems, as I have solved the one of today.

Devoire shrugged, "About what?" He turned the desk chronometer rather ostentatiously so that Altmayer could see its gleaming metal face on which the red, glowing figures stood out sharply. They read 22:31, and even as it was

Ne yaz?k ki, Sonsuzlukta bile ÅŸimdiki zaman geçip gidiyor.

He looked at Retief. "Uh ... got time for a drink?" "I shouldn't drink during office hours," Retief said. He rose. "So I'll take the rest of the day off.

por mucho que

El Aprendiz tartamudeó: —Brinsley Sheridan Cooper, del Setenta y ocho, señor. Harlan casi experimentó cierta simpatía por el muchacho. Solo diecisiete Siglos de distancia del suyo propio. Eran casi unos vecinos en el Tiempo.

Tendríamos el infinito en nuestras manos. Cada mundo tendría su propio Tiempo, sus valores, la oportunidad de buscar la Felicidad a su manera y en su ambiente. Hay muchas clases de Felicidad, de Bien, una infinita variedad de propósitos. ¡Ese es el Estado Básico de la Humanidad!

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?

How far is living from dying?

If time is just a form of perception, or a category of reason, the past is as present as today: Cain continues to murder Abel.

The years separated them as effectively as a partition.

Even eternity doesn't last forever

Well, dreams are all lost, Herman said to himself. Each day begins with amnesia.

La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.

memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

la edad, por sí sola, no hace a nadie mejor ni más sabio, sólo acentúa lo que cada uno ha sido siempre.