Quotes About Time

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn"t take a peek at what you"d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.

I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.

John took his fucking time in Xhex's shower , washing himself thoroughly not because he was dirty, but because he figured two could play at the whole whip-the-state-clean, what-happened-didn't-happen thing.

Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future, Adrian drawled as he walked around

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

The thing had woken him up as usual, an alarm clock. as reliable and stiff off the ground as Big Fucking Ben. [John Matthew]

There is no fight – I'm yours. If you want, here and now. Or later. A week, a month, years from now.

Is it my turn yet?" Lassiter asked over the earpiece. "I was born ready for this.

How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they controlled.

I am praying for your eternal soul. Don't bother. Come on, don't you want to go to Heaven? I wouldn't know anyone up there. And don't get too prissy with that religious bullshit, true? I don't want to spend an eternity without you, so you need to come to Dhunhd with me. Will they have milk duds there? yes, but they'll all be melted together. And we'll be surrounded by Yankees fans, televangelists, and no booze. We'll think of some way to pass the time. We always do.

Time was way too finite: no matter how much of it you had with someone you loved, when the end came, it wasn't nearly enough.

The past is what it is—good and bad, it's written and unchanging. And there's solace to be had in that.

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.

Destiny was like the passage of time, however, immutable and unforgiving and uninterested in the personal opinion of those who breathed.

If anyone ever wanted to sense the infinity of time and existence, all they had to do was look at the night sky and feel their precious dead staring back at them. It was the great duality of union and separation.

I can't change what happened and I know there's no going back…all I ask is that you don't fall for appearances, okay? You've had ten years around this family, but I've been with them and the people who surround them all my life. That's why you're the one I want. You're real. You're not capable of being what they are and that's a very, very good thing.

we are every age we have ever been at each moment in our lives. We carry it all with us like luggage.

Quando le braccia della maichen lo avvolsero e lei gli accarezzò la nuca, iAm sussultò…e si rese conto che in tutti gli anni che aveva passato sulla Terra, era la prima volta che aveva un posto dove andare quando sentiva che il mondo era un posto di merda e il tempo non era niente di più una tortura da sopportare.

he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Children were the only immortality mortals got—and even then, two generations later, three at the most, no one knew you in person anymore.

Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.

How many are with you", Sahvage said roughly as the Brother came forward. "All of them." At that, more figures stepped forward… Vishous, who now had a goatee. Murdher, who was still red-and-black-haired. And then there were others whose faces he didn't recognize. And there were others who he expected to see and did not. But it had been a very, very long time. Things changed.