Quotes About Time

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Friends, I have lost a day.

Ho il raffreddore due volte al anno, e ogni volta mi dura sei mesi.

Una volta avevamo il tempo di cercare la pace. Oggi non più.

Affascinato, come sono sempre stato, dalla ricca certezza del passato, e confuso dall'incertezza del futuro con le sue troppe possibilità, avevo preso il presente solo come materiale di cui godere una volta che fosse diventato passato. E così, il presente m'era sempre sfuggito.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Knowing someone isn't coming back doesn't mean you ever stop waiting

Days grow hotter and life grows shorter. Time is somehow running out. She flips her pillow so she won't have to sleep on her tears.

Their love is eternal because time seems to have fled, embarrassed to be sharing such a small apartment with so much dumb affection.

she described her vision of life as an enormous great act held within an infinite and immutable instant, one where she was present both as a witness and a participant.

Will was not surprised that his new friend was late. Oliver seemed to possess that sort of joie de vivre that did not lend itself to punctuality.

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.

All things are like that eddy, dependent on a very precise set of circumstances to exist—persisting for a time, occasionally for a very long time. But it's all in motion.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present.

The fact that we die is what makes what we do and who we do it with matter.

Is there some reason for my being here except to live out my allotted time, to burn my days alongside others who are, in turn, burning theirs?

The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.

In order to know that you're dead, you have to be conscious. . . but if you're conscious, then you're not dead. the only thing you can know is being alive, so that's eternity.

Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them.

Once we are born, only two things are certain. One is that we will die and the other that we will experience change.

Splošni odgovor, ki ga daje življenje na vsa najbolj zapletena in nerešljiva vprašanja je: živi za potrebe dneva, potem boš pozabil.