Quotes About Time

Things last either too long or not long enough.

Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. 

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Life is short, art is infinite.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

What does the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensifies it.

A veces podemos pasarnos años sin vivir en absoluto, y de pronto toda nuestra vida se concentra en un solo instante.

There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.

Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern.  One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. 

No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.