Quotes About Time

You're not here anymore. You've got to leave in order to return to the present.

Chi ama aspettandosi qualcosa in cambio perde il suo tempo.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Beklemek insana ac? verir. Unutmak ac? verir. Ama ne karar vereceÄŸini bilememek, ac?lar?n en büyüÄŸüdür.(s.117)

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

Because Library School will take up two whole years of my life, I have decided to keep a journal of events/feelings/reactions to it as long as I can stick it out. Judging from today, that might not be too long, but I will start with a reaction to yesterday so it will not be forgotten.

We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

All that had been was now no more.

Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs.

So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied with it.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

One faces the future with one's past

Man kann die Zeit nicht aufhalten, aber für die Liebe bleibt sie manchmal stehen.

It seemed so strange, so endless, this turning of some hidden wheel, this passing on of link caught onto link in some never ending chain that she was dazed with thinking of it even dimly, since she was not one to think into the meanings of what passed before her, but only taking all that came for what it was.