Quotes About Time

a democracy, mistakes can eventually be rectified and people who perpetrate stupidity or even atrocities are regarded, with the passage of time, more with tolerance and pity than with hate.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

developing a life in God's presence above all else is the only way to fulfill our God-given destinies. Keys to our callings are released when we spend time there.

Bookshelves of summer houses are filled with dishy nonsense. They indicate how a person understands time is meant to be wasted.

Days were ages. Loved bloomed and died in a day.

Yet when this day has ended my child will be older and I will be nearer to dead. Why should I wish for this to happen any sooner than it already will?

Älä viivy muistoissasi tänne tullaan suutelemaan, vielä kerran huutamaan kuin armaat, kunnioituksesta pimeyttä kohden kuolemaa

Er hoffte also in paradoxaler Weise, nämlich auf die Vergangenheit gerichtet statt auf die Zukunft. Und das tun wir, nebenbei bemerkt, meistens.

Ciò di cui un clown ha bisogno è tregua, la finzione di ciò che gli altri chiamano tempo libero. Ma questi altri non capiscono che la finzione del tempo libero per un clown consiste appunto nel dimenticare il suo lavoro, e non lo capiscono proprio perché loro si occupano della cosiddetta arte proprio durante il loro tempo libero.

Soon. Soon. Soon. Soon. When is Soon? What a terrible word: Soon. Soon can mean in one second, Soon can mean in one year. Soon is a terrible word. This Soon compresses the future, shrinks it, offers no certainty, no certainty whatever, it stands for absolute uncertainty. Soon is nothing and Soon is a lot. Soon is everything, Soon is death…

Apám erÅ'tlenül bólintott, én feléje nyújtottam a csomag cigarettát, vett belÅ'le, tüzet adtam. Sajnáltam már. Rossz lehet az egy apának, ha akkor beszélget elÅ'ször igazán a fiával, amikor az már majdnem huszonnyolc éves.

What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little seconds-hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on…

Por felicidad, no alcanzo a entender nada que dure más de un segundo, puede que dos o tres como máximo.

Ötekiler gülüyor, para umurlar?nda deÄŸil, dertleri vakit öldürmek. Ne zor ne korkunç bir iÅŸ bu vakit öldürmek; ufkun ard?nda göze görünmeksizin h?zla dönüp duran ÅŸu saniye göstergesi yok mu, onun durmadan koÅŸmaya devam ettiÄŸini, amans?zca koÅŸup durduÄŸunu bilmek yok mu?...

To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.

Here on earth we find ourselves in a waiting room.

The haste of Europeans has no place in Tibet. We must learn patience if we wished to arrive at the goal.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

I got home and I thought I should stop leading so aimless an existence. It is harder than you might think to stop leading an existence, & if you can't do that the only thing you can do is try to introduce an element of purposefulness....and though I might have to wait another 30 or 40 years for my body to join the non-sentient things in the world at least in the meantime it would be a less absolutely senseless sentience. OK.

Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or 21st time and sometimes I watched Jeremy Brett's marvellous grotesque Sherlock Holmes or of course Seven Samurai. I sometimes went out for Tennessee Fried Chicken. Day followed day. A year went by.