Quotes About Time

J'ai rêvé de ce que j'oublie, Je vis de ce qu'on m'a laissé.

Then, by dint of seeing the days born in the morning and miscarrying in the evening, I became afraid to die, and this fear was my first passion.

We catch only glimpses of life. Death is the one thing we really have time to see. A day is coming when I shall be no more. I am crying because I shall surely die.

But time did not stand still, and now we scarcely love each other." I am thinking,' you said, 'that this moment will never come again. I am thinking that you are going to change, to die, and go away. I am thinking so truly, so hotly, how precious these moments are, how precious you are, you who will never again be just what you are now, This is the wound--time, which passes and changes us. To grow old, to think differently, to die.

And night came, as every night will come, until the last one, which will be too vast. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living The last cry, as it was the first.

Estamos crucificados; no como Dios, que lo fue en carne sobre una cruz, sino que estamos crucificados sobre el tiempo y el espacio.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

If life realizes a plan, it ought to manifest a greater harmony the further it advances, just as the house shows better and better the idea of the architect as stone is set upon stone. If, on the contrary, the unity of life is to be found solely in the impetus that pushes it along the road of time, the harmony is not in front, but behind.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though

usually when we speak of time we think of the measurement of duration, and not of duration itself. But this duration which science eliminates, and which is so difficult to conceive and express, is what one feels and lives.

By the sole fact of being accomplished, reality casts its shadow behind it into the indefinitely distant past: it thus seems to have been pre-existent to its own realization, in the form of a possible. From this results an error which vitiates our conception of the past; from this arises our claim to anticipate the future on every occasion

En nous faisant saisir dans une intuition unique des moments multiples de la durée, elle nous dégage du mouvement d'écoulement des choses, c'est-à-dire du rythme de la nécessité.

W]ithin our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession.

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Life is once, forever.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

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