Quotes About Time

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?

The work of cultural destruction, while often swifter, easier, and more self-conscious than that of construction, is not the work of a moment. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day.

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

The sun! The sun! And all we can become And the time ripe for running to the moon!

What falls away is always. And is near.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We are the heirs of the ages

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

THE DAY The day was a year at first When children played in the garden; The day shrank down to a month When the boys played ball; The day was a week thereafter When young men walked in the garden; the day was itself a day when love grew tall the day shrank down to an hour when old man limped in the garden The day will last forever When it is nothing at all.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

time only exists to stop everything happening at once.

They were all getting too old too fast. Alison wished that someone had warned her about this while she was in high school. People get old really fast. Take it easy and learn to forgive. She wondered if she would have known what that meant in high school.

Don't fall in love with the past, she thought. You don't live there. Now is when you live. "I

The past and the present kept smashing into each other in completely untenable ways.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

Time. I'm afraid of time." She had never cared for nostalgia. There was a sadness to looking back, a reminder of time wasted. "Things happen too fast, without enough time to relish them or cherish them, or enjoy them as thoroughly as we should.

Life is available only in the present moment.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

Tu as compté les heures, observant avec ravissement la course des aiguilles. Le temps était fictif : était-il dix heures ou vingt-deux heures, mardi ou dimanche ? Cela n'avait pas d'importance ; de nouveau tu pouvais régulariser ta vie, à midi j'ai faim, à minuit sommeil. Un rythme, quelque chose à quoi se raccrocher.

He turns revolt into a style, prolongsThe impulse to a habit of the time.