Quotes About Time

Son, it's time to go home

To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image.

Yawning gaps of time when she could have been anywhere, doing anything.

That evening, that sureness, feels ancient now, like something grown small with the distance of years.

enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?

It was high time Ivor got moving. It wasn't fair to be dead and yet to hang around like this, in every room, in every corner of the house….There ought to be something like a fly-spray, a fly-spray for ghosts, a ghost-spray….

You just have to keep telling us there'll be more moments.

Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement. The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!

Çok zaman kaybettim. Çok zaman ve biraz da ümit. Ya?amak bu galiba...

Kitap, istikbale yollanan mektup... smokin giyen heyecan, mumyalanan tefekkür. Kitap ve gazete... biri zaman?n d???ndad?r, öteki "an"?n kendisi. Kitap, beraber ya?ar sizinle, beraber büyür. Gazete okununca biter.

Bizim için de?erli an?lar ta??yan yerlerde ayak izlerimiz niye silinir? Niye kalmaz?

Çünkü burada,bu kavaklar?n dibinde,büyüleyici bir cam k?r??? gibi kald? çocuklu?um...

Sevdi?imiz insanlar?n izleri neden bir yerde sürekli kalmazlar,neden onlar? her arad???m?zda bulamay?z? Bugün Duy?en'le birlikte indi?imiz o keçi yolunu bulsam kapan?r,izleri öperim.

Tarih çark? gittikçe daha h?zl? dönüyor. Çocuklar?m?z her ?eyi kendileri anlay?p ö?renmek, kendi ak?llar?yla yapmak, bizim i?lerimizi üstlenmek zorunda kalacaklar. Oysa dü?ünmek her zaman ac? veren a??r bir i?tir. Onun için onlar?n hayat? bizimkine göre daha zor olacakt?r...

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.

being around animals, I am always reminded that the only real moment in life is now.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

si era fermata e si era messa a piangere perché dormire era una stupidaggine e rubava tempo all'allegria.

I ragazzi, le donne, il mondo, non sono mica cambiati. Non portano più il parasole, la domenica vanno al cinema invece che in festa, danno il grano all'ammasso, le ragazze fumano - eppure la vita è la stessa, e non sanno che un giorno si guarderanno in giro e anche per loro sarò tutto passato.

Attendre est encore une occupation. C'est ne rien attendre qui est terrible.