Quotes About Time

Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous etions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'etre bien mis et d'etre amoureux, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre age a mon age, Nous ne comptions pas a deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit menage, Tout, meme l'hiver, nous etait printemps?

Tempus edax homo edacior; which I willingly thus translate; Time is blind, man is stupid.

He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

ViaÈ›a este pierderea neîntrerupt? a tot ce iubim.

At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press. It was the liberty of architecture.

La vie n'est qu'une longue perte de tout ce qu'on aime.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

La opinión política del señor Mabeuf consistía en amar apasionadamente las plantas, y sobre todo los libros. Tenía, como todo el mundo, su terminación en ista sin la cual nadie hubiera podido vivir en aque tiempo, pero no era ni realista, ni bonapartista, ni carlista, ni orleanista, ni anarquista: era librista.

I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors. The

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.

why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.

A clock does not stop at the very moment you lose the key.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of years gone by?

Ali junski pljuskovi nisu ništa. Jedva i primetite, jedan sat posle kakve provale oblaka, da je taj lepi plavi dan plakao.

There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.

A vida não passa de uma longa perda de tudo o que amamos.

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

this spectre encountered the rich man in all his glory; but they did not look at each other, they passed on. This condition of things could thus last for some time. The moment this man perceives that this woman exists, while this woman does not see that this man is there, the catastrophe is inevitable.