Quotes About Time

A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.

There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!

But that is the strange thing about the future. Nothing ages faster than yesterday's dreams of tomorrow.

Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

Age is state of mind not a statement of wrinkles

Can I stand in your light just for a while? I've waited around and oh no, you are not around I made up more time watching you

The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

I hope I die before I get old

You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity..

Once, at Fredensborg, when Prince Christopher cried out that he wished he were grown up, his mother, the sensible Queen Olga, rebuked him. 'Remember these years,' she said quietly, 'you will always think back on them as the happiest of your life.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Die Jugend, auch in ihren Fehlern ist sie noch schön und liebenswürdig, und das Alter, auch in seinen Tugenden taugt es nicht viel.

Ja, Erinnerung ist viel, ist alles. Und die hab ich nun und bleibt mir und kann mir nicht mehr genommen werden. Und ich fühle ordentlich, wie mir dabei leicht zumute wird.

Theodor Fontane

Die Jugend, auch in ihren Fehlern ist sie noch schön und liebenswürdig, und das Alter, auch in seinen Tugenden taugt es nicht viel. (S.52)

Tenía la vida por delante. Siempre tenemos la vida por delante. Lo que queda de ella.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Important artworks constantly divulge new layers, they age, grow cold and die.

Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.

All reification is a forgetting'—making available what has passed at once makes it irretrievable. Therein lies the desperate utopia of all musical reproduction: to retrieve the irretrievable through availability. All music-making is a recherche du temps perdu.

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it's through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you're not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else?

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.