Quotes About Time

Rien ne peut arrêter une idée dont l'heure est venue.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Tutte le cose della vita sono perennemente in fuga davanti a noi: ombre e luci s'intrecciano; dopo uno sfolgorìo, ecco una ecclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si stendon le mani per afferrare quello che passa; ogni evento è una svolta della strada; e all'improvviso, eccoci vecchi.

All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.

Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux! Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps!

Todavía perdura este patio la tormenta del combate; es visible el espanto; las convulsiones de la refriega se han quedado petrificadas en ese lugar; los seres están vivos, y luego muertos; fue ayer. Las paredes agonizan, las piedras se caen, las brechas vocean; los agujeros son llagas; los árboles inclinados y estremecidos parecen esforzarse por escapar.

It is the features of the years that makes up the face of the century.

les hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis.

On passe une moitié de sa vie à attendre ceux qu'on aimera et l'autre moitié à quitter ceux qu'on aime.

Le ore d'estasi non sono che un minuto.

Cuando se acordaba de sus opiniones anteriores, que eran sólo de ayer y que, no obstante, le parecían ya tan antiguas, se indignaba y sonreía.

Existem meditações que se poderiam chamar verticais; quando se está lá no fundo, é preciso tempo para voltar à superfície.

Me acuerdo de haber leído en cierto libro que todos los hombres están condenados a muerte a plazos indefinidos.

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bütün insanlar günü belirsiz bir ölüme mahkûmdurlar

the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.

É por isso que me dou muito bem com ele. Ajeitou-se a todas as minhas rugas, não me incomoda nada, moldou-se a todas as minhas disformidades, é complacente com todos os meus movimentos; só o sinto porque me aquece. Os fatos velhos são como os velhos amigos.

Niente è più forte di un'idea il cui tempo sia venuto.

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it.

It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.

On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior*; which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.      *  Time is a devourer; man, more so.

In six months the little girl had become a young woman; that was all. Nothing is more common than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls bloom in a twinkling, and become roses all at once. Yesterday we left them children, today we find them disturbing. She had not only grown; she had become idealized. As three April days are enough for certain trees to put on a covering of flowers, six months had been enough for her to put on a mantle of beauty. Her April had come.

Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.