Quotes About Time

Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...

We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

The days hardened like loaves: he ate them without appetite.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, buy our stories will most certainly outlast us.

I can still to this day hear my folks whispering and laughing before they went off to sleep: perhaps it is all I want to recall, perhaps our stories should stop on a dime, maybe things could begin and end right there, at the moment of laughter, but things don't begin and end really, I suppose; they just keep on going.

There isn't a story in the world that isn't in part, at least, addressed to the past.

He had learned that the cure for fate was patience.

He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.

There isn't a story in the world that isn't in part, at least, addressed to the past. I

People can look different from hour to hour depending on the angle of daylight.

There was a quote about standing in a river too long or long enough that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?

Sometimes he felt as if the rubber bullet had been travelling a whole decade.

I don't remember which philosopher it was who said: There is never any shortage of old women.

That the door fell shut, that the latch fell into place, did I know it with a nameless fear. At that second the eight days turned into 192 hours, empty caged hours.

Life, Dulcie, is entirely too short to waste. There are no promises, no guarantees. But love, my dear girl. She took Dulcie's hands and gazed into her eyes. Love is always worth the effort.

Be grateful for the moment in Time.

Hey," Faraday said after a few seconds. "Did you know your clock's still ten minutes fast?

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Quand on voir ce qu'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on lassie/ Seul le silence est grand tout le reste est faiblesse.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. [...] But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibilities, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities - whose finite sum constitutes the whole of life - pass by unused.

T]he full gravity of the responsibility that every man bears throughout every moment of his life: the responsibility for what he will make of the next hour, for how he will shape the next day.

The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back.