Quotes About Time

The future is in the past.

in Tony's case, free time was the result of productive insights.

he who does not have a past has no future.6

Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Laws come and go; ethics stay.

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

At the limit, you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

10 year old books feel very aged, out of place, out of sync. 200 year old books feel contemporary. 2000 year old books feel fresh.

In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.

since the older we get, the less likely we are to live.

Um peru é alimentado durante mil dias por um açougueiro; cada dia

O tempo é o melhor teste de fragilidade — abrange volumosas doses de desordem

Time is the expert. Or, rather, the temperamental and ruthless Lindy, as we see in the next chapter.

so users were severely constrained by time.

values unscheduled meditation.

Another way to see the beastly aspect of schedules and rigid projections is to think in limit situations. Would you like to know with great precision the date of your death? Would you like to know who committed the crime before the beginning of the movie? Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

Birds fly and those who lecture them are the ones who write their story. So it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.

activities. It separates those professions in which one can add zeroes of income with no greater labor from those in which one needs to add labor and time (both of which are in limited supply)

Time is an eraser rather than a builder, and a good one at breaking the fragile—whether buildings or ideas.

If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.

So I wasn't there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

Allora io avevo fede in un avvenire facile e lieto, ricco di desideri appagati, di esperienze e di comuni imprese. Ma era quello il tempo migliore della mia vita e solo adesso che m'è sfuggito per sempre, solo adesso lo so. [Inverno in Abruzzo - Le piccole virtù]

Los fantasmas de nuestra infancia son indestructibles y no saben envejecer

I'll be patient. I can't even count the number of times I've had to be patient when it comes to you. With every passing year, one's store of patience inevitably grows. It's the only resource that grows. All the others tend to wither.