Quotes About Time

But it could wait until they got back. That was the nice thing about the past—it stayed right where you put it until you needed to pick it up again.

the war that will come now is every bit as bloody." "But you delayed it a few more years," said Verily. "What good is that?" "It's two or three more years of life. Of loving and marrying and having babies. Of buying and selling, of plowing and planting and harvesting, of moving and settling. It will be a different world in two or three years, and those who die in the war will have had that much more life. It's not a small thing, those years.

God made us with death inside, and also with intelligence. We have our seventy years or so, perhaps ninety, with care in the mountains of Georgia, a hundred and thirty is not unheard of, though I personally believe they are all liars. They would claim to be immortal if they thought they could get away with it. We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time.

You just say what you think will hurt me and make me embarrassed to spend time with Bizzy." "I know how men think," said Mother. "And you're a man. You'd be pretty worthless as a man if you didn't think that way.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

He knew from experience that a day like this could drag on and the only thing he would have to look forward to was for it to get dark so he could go to sleep and wait for tomorrow to come around.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Life is too short to learn German

Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Wisdom comes with winters

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.