Quotes About Time

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.

a year and an instant is equivalent in a monotonous life

A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life.

They merely stood, completely absorbed by nothing. Time dissolved into the sky. There was little difference between landscape and spectators. Insensible things that existed in one another.

The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited

And what is choice but a branch of the future grafting itself onto the stem of the present?

know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

I told him, for instance, how I had come to experience time differently. The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited. He

AM I know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

The future irrupts at all times, wanting to actualize itself in every decision we make; it tries, as hard as it can, to become the past. This is what distinguishes the future from mere fancy. The future happens. The

I used to fully commit to finishing a book, even if I disliked it. But since realizing that I am, in a general way, dying, I've decided there isn't enough time to finish books that weren't meant for me. Who thought finitude could be so liberating?

A certain amount of time is allotted to each of us. How much, only God knows. We cannot invest it. We cannot hope for a return of any kind. All we can do is spend it, second by second, decade by decade, until it runs out.

I had come to experience time differently. The world I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

The longer the span of someone's existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.

Daytime sleep is not deep black; it's shallow and yellow. Our sleep is restless, the sunlight falls on our pillows. But it does make the day a little shorter.

Man hat es leichter, wenn man selber weg muß, die Angst wegträgt, und das Glück da läßt, und vom anderen erwartet wird. Zu Hause sitzen und warten dehnt die Zeit zum Zerreißen und treibt die Angst auf die Spitze.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

Het landschap van onze kindertijd laat sporen achter voor onze blik op het landschap gedurende de volgende jaren.

Na aldeia, o dia inteiro fica escuro, disse ele. Não amanhece e nem anoitece. Não há um alvorecer e nem um entardecer. O crepúsculo está no rosto das pessoas.

Windisch piensa: "el final está aquí". Desde que se propuso emigrar ve el final en todos los rincones del pueblo. Y el tiempo detenido para los que quieren quedarse.

O tédio é a paciência do medo.

The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us.