Quotes About Time

On marche très vite alors qu'on voudrait que le chemin n'eût jamais de fin. Et le chemin a pris fin.

Vår stutte tid blir her.

Never forget I am old," she said. "What does that mean, Mummy-ji?" "Didn't you know? Old is gold, na.

In between the 'no more' and the 'not yet', we may say, lies the eternally present and equally eternally absent'time zone' called'now'.

Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about the ravages of time, about how it robbed and deprived, Justin always smiled; because for him, time was an accomplice, plugging the gaps and fleshing out morsels of memory so he would have something substantial to hang on to. That way, however little he had seen or felt, he would always feel as if he had more: a life far richer than the truth.

every second of the day offers a beautiful opportunity to achieve success. Therefore, you have 86,400 chances to change your life every day.

What were you doing when you were eight, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen? The answer is, I suspect: not very much.

You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.

in a place like China. People rush ahead of you; they have no time to look back.

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

small measure of

Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

You can never really unlove somebody. Maybe it changes shape, but it's there.

Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

time is the quintessential mother.

Much of life is time and circumstance, I see that now. Roy came into my life at the time when I needed a man like him. Would I have galloped into this love affair if I had never left Atlanta? I don't know. But how I feel love and understand love are two different things.

It was just the wrong race and the wrong time. Police are shady as hell. That's why everybody is locked up.

It's hard to mark time when your heart is a pinball in your chest.

But for real, I want to tell you what you mean to me, but it's like trying to count the seconds of a day on your fingers and toes.

the wrong race and the wrong time.

Neither of us would ever enjoy the perfect peace of nothing. After the clock by the bed flashed midnight and Christmas was over, I felt my wife nibbling kisses across my shoulders. I smelled unhappiness on her breath, but she continued caressing me, saying my name in a mournful whisper.