Quotes About Time

Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.

Robert Louis Stevenson presents a character who, in London at night, is astonished 'to walk for such a long time in such a complex decor without encountering even the slightest shadow of an adventure.' The urbanists of the twentieth century will have to construct adventures. The simplest Situationist act would consist in abolishing all the memories of the employment of time of our epoch. It is an epoch that, up until now, has lived far below its means.

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

It's a lesson too late for the learning, made of sand, made of sand. In the wink of an eye my soul is turning, in your hands, in your hands. Are you going away, with no word of farewell, will there be not a trace left behind? I could of loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know it was the last thing on my mind.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

WHAT dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us," Alexandre Dumas would one day write in his memoir, meditating on his father's fate. "When they are revealed, men may realize that it is by the good providence of God they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?