Quotes About Time

No se recuerdan los días, se recuerdan los momentos

Erano gli unici, i soldati, ad accorgersi che le donne esistevano ancora. Nella citùù disordinata e sempre all'erta, più nessuno osservava le donne di un tempo, nessuno le seguiva, nemmeno vestite da estate, nemmeno se ridevano. Anche in questo la guerra, io l'avevo prevista. Per me questo rischio era cessato da un pezzo. Se avevo ancora desideri, non avevo più illusioni.

BaÅŸkalar?yla -hatta kar??na ç?kan tek insanla- sanki her ÅŸey o an baÅŸlayacak ve biraz sonra bitecekmiÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamal?s?n.

Come ha fatto a trovarmi? - gli dissi ridendo. - Non è nulla. Ho aspettato. - Tutta la notte. - Tutto l'inverno.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Non è bello essere bambini: è bello da anziani pensare a quando eravamo bambini.

I veri acciacchi dell'età sono i rimorsi.

Vecchi si nasce, – dissi, – non si diventa mica.

I liked the faces, too, the same as I'd always seen them; the old wrinkled women, the cautious oxen, the girls with flowers, the roofs of the dove-cotes. It seemed as if only seasons had passed since I saw them last, not years.

We don't remember days,we remember moments.

Ma viene un momento, certe volte, che una ha paura del tempo che passa, e non sa più se val la pena di correre tanto.

L'ozio rende lente le ore e veloci gli anni. L'operosità rapide le ore e lenti gli anni.

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos

They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man. If you'd meet Naropa or Tilopa on the spot you'd be pissed off. History is very deceptive, reality is more important. There is a piece of philosophy for you.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? … I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

Hidup hanya menunda kekalahan.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I that that's not right, either' in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in a lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary. [pp. 320-321]

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

already told you, we're not going bug hunting. It's a party, and Grace is like me—she won't have time to look for beetles.