Quotes About Time

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

My soul?" replied Virginia. "I sold it a long time ago for a kilo of truffles.

This is the really incomprehensible side of humanity, people never have time for anything.

hundred and ten is not such a great age, from a biblical point of view at least.

El arte es una magia que hace que las horas se desvanezcan e incluso que los días se disuelvan en segundos.

Time, as we all know, passes. Whether it returns in quite the same way is doubtful.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies? Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

So I shall be honest Ã¢â'¬â€œ I don't think that I can love a man for longer than…" She mused as she leant her head charmingly to the side and considered. "One year?" I suggested. "What are you thinking of? Ã¢â'¬â€œ perhaps one month" "Even for me?" "No, for you… perhaps two." "Two months!" I gasped. "Two months is quite long

Los libros hablaban y hablaban y Dios iba diciendo: pronto se acabará el mundo.

Me gustan los viejos: no es una diarrea sentimental, como diría ese barbarote de Samuel Tesler. Los viejos me gustan como las flores marchitas, los frutos pasados, los otoños y los anocheceres, las cosas en trance final y en víspera de metamorfosis

In our culture, love is romanticized as a mystifying, random whirl of passion that happens to a person. Falling in love is thought to be the culmination of love. Yet, love is only meaningful and lasting when a person chooses to love responsibly and welcomes the opportunity to allow love to grow and deepen with time.

if we seek, and are aware we have missed the moment we seek, our own absolute moment in time, then we live out our lives unfulfilled. In the words of an eastern proverb: we die with our eyes open – we cannot rest; even in death we are still looking for it.

Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.

Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

A watched pot never boils. But it does get paranoid.

Each star had cost an effort. For each there had been planning, watching and anticipation. Each one recalled to me a place, a time, a season. Each one now has a personality. The stars, in short, had become my stars.

And the Sunday trains are as slow as a Scotchman saying good-bye to a bawbee…Look here, the only one you'll have time to catch now is the 4:

Punctuality is the politeness of princes'?

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.