Quotes About Time

Our pictures are fleeting and elusive. In the far future, bits of hard drives may be fossilized in limestone, and discarded iPhones may find themselves encased in amber, hardened like nail polish, but the bits of humanity that these exquisitely crafted machines hold will be lost to time.

There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!

I confess that you are a bag of gleet squeezed from the purulent sphincter that is the mouth of Iyachtu Xvim!" He would not listen to the truth; what choice did I have but to return to my earlier strategy? "In the time beyond the Year of Carnage, your god shall empty the chamber pots at the Palace of Eternity, and you shall clean the garderobes!

Gossip has a lifespan, that speculation eventually becomes old news, and is forgotten. - Rothen

You took your time getting here, Ambassador," he said. "Don't blame me. You Elynes should have built your city closer to the library." "Now there's a good idea. I'll suggest it to the King next time I attend court." "You never attend court." "That's right." Tayend smiled.

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

Trudy, there is no such thing as time. Dying is like walking from the living room into the dining room, there are no beginnings or endings.

11:30: I am confused. I only want sushi.

the past is redefined by the arrow of its future.

A coin uncounted is a wasted coin. A moment uncounted is a moment that never was.

The trouble seemed to be the lack of experience among the officers, which led them after a certain time to simply quit, without being particularly whipped, but because they had fought enough.

started back the same evening to hurry up his command, fully appreciating the importance of time.

village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...