Quotes About Time

The truth is that writing is simply not reliable. You can't count on it to be there just because you've made time for it. In fact, making space might make it disappear.

The shack, the long hours of darkness illuminated by nothing but candles and moonlight, even the spider—he missed it all. He missed that boy he once was and could never be again. That time when the only life that mattered was his own.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

É preciso tão pouco tempo para forjar uma vida.

I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

You can't outrun the inevitable.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Which carries the greater value? The years or the weeks?

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.

Time passes in the rain that doesn't fall, in the lakes and rivers that we don't reach.

It was nearly time for Ruth's examinations.

The sharp knife of a short life, well I've had, just enough time.

The album we've made is much more than a book. It's worth even more than the time that it took.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Beauty fades. That is why it is beautiful.

Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

She glanced up from his lips to those dark eyes that smoldered with his fire. She remembered now what they had looked like as she'd seen him before Morgen had entered his world. "Your eyes used to be blue." "That was a long time ago." -Seren to Kerrigan