Quotes About Time

Tragedy occurred outside normal time, everyday convention. It possessed a bewildering ability to fade and grow brighter simultaneously.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

I used to know where I was going but as I get older I just seem to arrive there!

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

How can anything that exists from eternity have a cause, since that relation implies a priority in time and a beginning of existence?

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without controul, into the most distant parts of space and time, in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.

There is no past, memory paints it,' Ã¢â'¬Â the pope recited. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThere is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.

We go through our lives thinking we are living in the present when in truth we are living in the past and the future.

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow doesn't exist – we need to accept Now.

If you visualise something happening in the future it will always be happening in the future and never in the now.

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.

Such was the mistrust of the official line, so heavy was the spin, that with any new piece of information you learned to do a kind of mental arithmetic whereby you divided the information given by the speaker's rank, multiplied by his or her time in-country, and subtracted based on the number of miles the speaker was distant from the fighting. From The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground

Later, I interviewed a prominent psychoanalyst, who told me that trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time, you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy, or bouncing about like a rubber ball from now to then and back again.

I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, "He's talking about the distant future. His visions won't come true for a long, long time." Therefore, tell them, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!" (Ezekiel 12:27-28 NLT)

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.

To grow a sanctuary from seedlings takes time. But time has a way of going faster than you realize, and before you're aware of it you'll be rewarded hundredfold for your efforts.

Death, becoming obsolete, and trying to make a mark before leaving the world were all themes he returned to repeatedly

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

It was last year as it is this year, and it will be the same next year. That details about diet are debated at the frontiers of our knowledge does nothing to alter the landscape of the far more copious common ground. 2,3