Quotes About Time

Zbudzi?em si? o tej mrocznej godzinie, która zaczyna beznadziejny jesienny dzie?. (...) To jest godzina podliczania kasy ?yciowej, godzina codziennego obrachunku. Kiedy? ludzie podsumowywali si? o pó?nocy, przed ci??kim za?ni?ciem, teraz bij? si? w piersi nad ranem, obudzeni ?oskotem zdychaj?cego serca.

I zrozumia?em, ?e ju? nie ma krainy mego dzieci?stwa. ?e ?yje ona tylko we mnie i razem ze mn? rozsypie si? w proch której? nadbiegaj?cej z nico?ci godziny.

Jakie to przygn?biaj?ce, jakie? to obel?ywe, ?e wszystko si? sprowadza do tych kilku pyta? z monologu Hamleta. Min??y wieki, upad?y cywilizacje, odesz?o w nico?? tyle pokole?, a nic si? nie zmieni?o, a tak ma?o si? zmieni?o i nam ta przekl?ta opatrzno?? odbiera z?udn? satysfakcj? pierwsze?stwa, pozbawia autorstwa, czyni nas wiecznymi plagiatorami.

?wiat nie mo?e umrze?. Wielu ju? pokoleniom zdawa?o si?, ?e ?wiat umiera. Ale to tylko ich w?asny ?wiat umiera?.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

I'll start dying meticulously wisely optimistically without wasting time

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.

Ne vem, iz kakšnega daljnega ?asa mi prihajaš ?edalje bolj naproti. Tvoje sonce in zvezde te ne morejo za zmeraj skriti pred menoj. Marsikakšno jutro in ve?er je bilo slišati tvoje stopnje in tvoj sel je prišel v moje srce in me skrivaj poklical. Ne vem, zakaj je danes moje življenje tako nemirno in mi srce prešinja ob?utek trepetajo?ega veselja. Kakor da prihaja ?as, ko naj kon?am svoje delo, in v zraku ?utim rahel duh tvoje blage navzo?nosti.

The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!

It's been "one of those days" for like 3 years now.

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret.

The man who stops advertising to save money is the man who stops the clock to save time.

We'll be friends until we're old and senile, then we'll be new friends.

Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

INSOMNIA = 1:51 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:52 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:53 A.M. + ETERNITY

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

Zen questioning is a very gentle questioning. It is the kind of questioning that the Colorado River asks the Grand Canyon over centuries and centuries.

All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.

After his relationship with Kiyo had turned to disappointment and he began coming to town to drink, he got to know a woman who worked in a cheap noodle restaurant. She was from Sango's village and since she hardly had any land of her own to till, she worked as a day laborer, helping to till others' fields, and did various other jobs. Hearing about Yoshimine and Kiyo, she'd said that love affairs demand the luxury of free time.

What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking, I drift, tossed by the waves of years.

It's not yesterday anymore