Quotes About Time

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

Devotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?

Books are the anchors Left by the ships that rot away.

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

The whole world, if you wait long enough Is full of falling.

The middle of the sentence had already left the beginning of the sentence lost in the distance, and the end of the sentence was slower to arrive than a school holiday.

How short life must be, if something so fragile can last a lifetime. —KAFKA

She knew that a minute before sunrise, when the sky began to lighten, showing dark, early clouds, there was often a pause when nothing moved, not even time, and she was always happy to be up and in that moment; sometimes she tried to stand perfectly still, to not move with time not moving, and it seemed that if she were not careful she might slip out of this world and into another…She hoped that when her time came, it would be close to morning, and she could wait for the still moment.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

AD Jones' Büro ist fensterlos und nüchtern. Er hat sich ein Eckbüro mit großartiger Aussicht nehmen können, doch als ich ihn einmal deswegen gefragt habe, lautete seine Antwort sinngemäß: "Ein guter Chef sollte nicht allzu viel Zeit im Büro verbringen." p. 26

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.

elle ne pouvait pas comprendre que l'humeur sensuelle d'un homme est une saison brève, dont le retour incertain n'est jamais un recommencement.

Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.

I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life.

TOBY-CHIEN : Qu'est-ce que tu fais aujourd'hui ? KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Mais...rien TOBY-CHIEN ironique : Pour changer. KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Pardon, pour ne pas changer. Quelle est cette rage de changement qui vous possède tous ? Changer, c'est détruire. Il n'y a d'éternel que ce qui ne bouge pas. TOBY-CHIEN : Voilà déjà bien trois heures que je suis éternel.