Quotes About Time

I'll be back quick as a rumor.

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.

I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?

Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.What hours, O what black hours we have spentThis night.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay.

I am soft sift 25 In an hourglass — at the wall Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, And it crowds and it combs to the fall; I steady as a water in a well, to a poise, to a pane, But roped with, always, all the way down from the tall 30 Fells or flanks of the voel, a vein Of the gospel proffer, a pressure, a principle, Christ's gift.

Het graf gaapt, de tijd zoemt en nergens is redding.

Kostbare tijd, die niet meer te achterhalen is, heb ik vermorst.

Uren, dagen, maanden, jaren, zei hij bij zichzelf. Dit is de avond. Dit is de nacht. Het is oudejaarsavond. Over ruim acht en twintig minuten is het middernacht. Ik heb nog acht en twintig minuten. Ik moet mijn gedachten verzamelen. Ik moet klaar zijn met denken, als het twaalf uur is.

Dat reizen om ergens een deeltje van toen en toen te ontdekken, dat is toch tijdverspilling? U bent toch schrijver, en geen bibliothecaris? Het gaat in het leven om geheel andere deeltjes.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Sooner or later your life is going to flash before your eyes; make sure it's worth watching.

some claim that one is only ever really in love once in a lifetime, others that it is better the second time around, others that the first time is the only genuine manifestation, still others that they fall in love every week or even every day.

The old forget, the young don't know.

It is only the city dweller spending his weekends in the country who goes into raptures about nature; the farmer breathes in it. It is only the uncreative critic who is given to much talking about art. For the artist himself, his art is speech sufficient. It is only a motherless time that cries out for a mother, and a deeply unmotherly age that can point to the mother as a demand of the time, for it is precisely the mother who is timeless, the same in all epochs and among all peoples.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.