Quotes About Time

life doesn't stand still, and sometimes it doesn't pay to look back, long ago isn't worth a wink!

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.

El olvido es ahora la especialidad de su memoria.

porque las mujeres quieren mucho tiempo después de que han dejado de respetar lo que quieren.

Sabemos que no hay inicios de los tiempos; los tiempos son un continuo que la memoria marca para darse un orden y otorgar un sentido a lo que no tiene sentido.

perhaps within me the desire to put off that which I most in the world desire of late keeps watch, I mean, to write a book but a wounded book, a contentious, broken book, a book not pleased to be a book, to be only a book, to be born in the absence of my friend, a book incapable of acting as if the last times were not upon us, but which at the same time cannot act as if it were only a book hence a being unaware of the end, unaware what time it is.

sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.

This is why we desire so often to die, when we write, in order to see everything in a flash, and at least once shatter the spine of time with only one pencil stroke. — Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts . (Routledge November 12, 1998)

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

From tender infancy Smith has been an early riser. He sleeps so little that Morpheus barely knows him by sight. When he dreams he only has time for a synopsis. He was the first man to discover that you can cut a sleeping pill in half and enjoy a nap.

Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

H. Beam Piper

Every hour or so, he looked at his watch, and it would be three or four minutes later.

Father, dear father, come home with me now,The clock in the belfry strikes one;You said you were coming right home from the shopAs soon as your day's work was done.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

One of these days is none of these days.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.