Quotes About Time

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she'd ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.

You'll be mine before the next snow flies.

Days are precious, dinna lose them. Flo`ers will fade and so will ye... Come to me, ye fair young maidens. While young and fair ye still may be.

It might be better if we didn't see each other for a while.

Bad day? -Bad Century

The greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

Few know how to be old.

There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life.

insan öldü?ünde uzunca bir süre için ölür-

Une minute vient de s'écouler. Cela fait environ cent morts et cent nouveau-nés de plus. Une centaine de vagissements et une centaine de derniers soupirs. Le calcul est fait depuis longtemps. Le compte est exact. C'est la balance du grouillement de l'humanité. Dans une heure, il y aura six mille cadavres sous votre lit et six mille petits enfants, tout autour de vous, pleureront par lierre ou dans des berceaux.