Quotes About Time

Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It's a slow-growing plant.

Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it.

Mi vida se hace al contarla y mi memoria se fija con la escritura; lo que no pongo en palabras sobre papel, lo borra el tiempo.

El tiempo transcurre muy lento. O tal vez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo.

You're going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you've committed, see if you can come to grips with them

A los ocho años se había enamorado de Ichimei con la intensidad de los amores de la infancia y de Nathaniel con el amor sereno de la vejez.

I write, she wrote, that 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—as the three Mora sisters said, who could see the spirits of all eras mingled in space.

D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...]

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember. That is all I've done for these past days, silently filling in the missing details to complete this testament—a sentimental legacy, more than a material one.

Al final, lo único que tenemos a plenitud es la memoria que hemos tejido.

no podía imaginar el coraje que se requiere para envejecer sin asustarse demasiado;

Supongo que en el transcurso de la vida embellecemos algunos recuerdos y procuramos olvidar otros.

Lo vivido, vivido está»

Más o menos cada diez años echo una mirada hacia el pasado y puedo ver el mapa de mi viaje, si es que eso puede llamarse un mapa; parece más bien un plato de tallarines. Si uno vive lo suficiente y mira para atrás, es obvio que no hacemos más que andar en círculos.

at least as old as synthetic penicillin—you

one is never too old to get younger.

Scrivo, lei ha scritto, che la memoria è fragile e il corso di una vita è molto breve e tutto avviene così in fretta, che non riusciamo a vedere il rapporto tra gli eventi, non possiamo misurare le conseguenze delle azioni, crediamo nella finzione del tempo, nel presente, nel passato, nel futuro, ma può anche darsi che tutto succeda simultaneamente...

Eso pasa con la edad: las historias del pasado cobran vida y se nos pegan en la piel.

I'm so old that I don't recognize myself when I look in the mirror.

Cuánto vive el hombre, por fin? ¿Vive mil años o uno solo? ¿Vive una semana o varios siglos? ¿Por cuánto tiempo muere el hombre? ¿Qué quiere decir para siempre? PABLO NERUDA

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

What's the worst thing about growing old?" she would ask them. They never thought about their age, was a common reply; they had once been adolescents, then they were thirty, fifty, sixty, and never gave it a thought, so why should they do so now?

I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.

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