Quotes About Time

Strange that it will all just go on, we will paint, travel, love, grieve, collect money, buy things, grow old ... whether we want to or not.

Life is short, the world is enormous. (Moominpappa)

I'll wind all the clocks,' he thought. 'Perhaps that makes the spring come a tiny bit earlier. And someone might wake up if I happen to break some big thing.

Tonight I'm alone with my tune, and tonight isn't tomorrow.

To the final landscape of our old age, as summer fades...Silence settles around us, each of us wanders his own way, and yet we all meet by the sea in the peaceful sunset.

Siinä on jotakin hyvin hienoa, kun saa kokea viimeisen vanhuutensa maiseman katoavassa kesässä. Ympärillä tyyntyy, itse kukin vaeltaa omaa tietään, mutta kaikki me kohtaamme meren rannalla tyynessä iltaruskossa.

That's strange, Grandmother thought. I can't describe things any more. I can't find the words, or maybe it's just that I'm not trying hard enough. It was such a long time ago. No one here was even born. And unless I tell it because I want to, it's as if it never happened; it gets closed off and then it's lost.

Märkvärdigt att en så stor och långdragen besvikelse så kvickt kan glömmas for en ny förälskelse men så var det.

Pappan tystnade och började bekymrad bläddra i memoarerna. Tycker ni jag har använt för ovanliga ord? frågade han. Det gör nog inget, sa Mumintrollet. Det var ju för så länge sen och man kan nästan gissa vad du menar.

The arabesques sank into the ground and turned green with moss, and the trees slipped deeper and deeper into each other's arms as time went by.

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even didn't even realize they had forgotten.

I grunnen hadde ingen av dem lyst til å snakke. Ennå. De hadde god tid, sommeren lå lang og full av løfter foran dem.

I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. - An Eightieth Birthday

Spika på du bara, man måste skynda sig medan man har lust.

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Los telescopios, esas catedrales de los tiempos modernos que recogen la luz del cosmos, constituyen fantásticas máquinas para retroceder en el tiempo.

Dios fuera del tiempo sería omnipotente, pero ya no podría socorrernos puesto que nuestros actos se sitúan en el tiempo. Si Dios trasciende el tiempo, ya conoce el futuro. ¿Por qué habría de preocuparse del progreso de la lucha de los hombres contra el mal si ya conoce todo con antelación?.

or even You're right, or maybe I'm a giant idiot and I wouldn't be offended if you abandoned me here. But instead, "You were taking forever

The past does not exist -- except in the brain.

there is no test in getting what you want when you want it; the true test of character transpires in the waiting. Dwell on this in moments of despair.' Mathu vanished an instant before the doctor and the constable entered the Abbey ruins, and I had an inkling that this was not the last I would see of my Fey brother.

I saw death approaching down the corridor of time, where it has loitered since my birth, waiting to accompany my spirit back through the ethers to the Otherworld. With the touch of the divine, I see the sum total of my life, my deeds, all I have done, that which I leave undone and shall accomplish upon my returning.