Quotes About Time

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time. ~ BORGES ~

The Greek word clepsydra, given to ancient water clocks, comes from the amalgamation of the Greek words for water and to steal.

His face had softened: as if just being a moment with her had relaxed him, allowed him to be someone different. I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.

No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

Will I ever see you again? No. Do I love you? Yes, for all time.

It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick's Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.

History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand's assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history.

She reached the group. Eileen had been crying. She wiped clumsily at her cheeks as Polly joined them, and then smiled at her. Are you ready? Eileen asked. No , Polly thought. Yes. Are you certain? Colin said. I know how hard this must be for you. We haven't a lot of time, but we've enough for you to say goodbye, if there's anyone else you need to-- I love you , Polly thought.

Time is the fire in which we burn. —Delmore Schwartz

Because Dunworthy is not blinking against the fatal sunlight of the last morning, but into the gloom of that first afternoon, looking in the great west doors of St. Paul's at what is, like Langby, like all of it, every moment, in us, saved forever.

That was the most difficult thing about time travel, remembering where and when one was. She'd forgotten she wasn't still a servant and called Linna "ma'am" twice

Belki bizim zaman?m?z?n sorunu da budur Bay Dunworthy. Kurucular? Maisry, piskoposun elçisi ve Sir Bloet ne de olsa. Roche gibi kal?p yard?m etmeye çal??an bütün insanlar vebaya yakalan?p öldüler.

I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.

Perhaps that's what's wrong with our time, Mr. Dunworthy, it was founded by Maisry and the bishop's envoy and Sir Bloet. And all the people who stayed and tried to help, like Roche, caught the plague and died.

You can't go back," Gilchrist said. "Haven't you heard? We're under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy's carelessness.

The past and the future are both part of a single continuum