Quotes About Time

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

when the universe exploded like a bomb, it started ticking like a bomb too. we know our sun will die, in another hundred million years or so, then the lights will go out and there will be no light to read by anymore.

Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.

Time was my Medusa. Time was turning me to stone.

Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed.

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

Nothing is solid. Nothing is fixed. These are images that time changes and that change time, just as the sun and the rain play on the surface of things.

Late-night TV and snoring side by side into the millennium. Till death us do part. Anniversary darling? What's wrong with that?

There are thirteen moons every calendar year. They measure time differently on the moon. The moon orbits the earth once every 28 days As though she's looking for something she lost. A long time ago.

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker.

and what is memory but a rope slung across time?

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

time is what shields us from eternity.

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.

If time is a river then we shall all meet death by water.

Viitorul, prezentul È™i trecutul nu exist? decât în mintea noastr?, iar de la dep?rtare marginile li se micÈ™oreaz? È™i li se înceÈ›oÈ™eaz? precum graniÈ›ele unor ??ri duÈ™mane, v?zute dintr-un oras plutitor, tocmai de pe bolt?.

This is one reason why it remains anarchic even at its most canonised. The modern world is Time's fool. Art is master of itself. But, you may say, who has long hours for a book these days? The answer must be whoever wants to read one. A reader must pick up a book, then the reader must pick up the beat. At that moment the clock is stopped. Now I am getting his beat into my brain (the rhythm is the main thing in writing).

Is it failure for morning to become afternoon?

Optimal's logo reads: The Future Is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?

But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.

In theory you are right... Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.

Your life flashes before you, flash, flash, because there's so little of it. I mean, what have you ever done that was worth doing?

I looked back at you. These moments that are talismans and treasure