Quotes About Time

realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

Love lost or rejected may first turn to hate, but only over time does it become indifference.

Looking back, she began to wonder if perhaps it was all just a story. As the years race inexorably on, and as all the people we know and love die, does the past turn into fiction, an act of the imagination populated by ghosts, scenes and images suspended forever in water glass?

When your friends and lovers start dying, you begin to feel as if you have only narrowly escaped the reaper yourself, and that it's only a matter of time. Which, of course, it is. In the meantime, there's a version of survivor's guilt to deal with.

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

this is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.

Art is long, life is short', goes the old adage, and arranging a limited number of paintings to represent the numerous developments and styles of Western art is by all standards a Herculean task.

Eliminating politicians' ability to raise money while in session would force them to devote their time exclusively to their job: lawmaking.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

You can sit down and spend hours crafting some joke that you think is perfect, but a lot of the time, that's just a waste of time," Ruby explains.

She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But

Being seventy-six has a few advantages, one of them being that a premature demise is no longer possible.

Amount of time an American child spends watching television, annually: 1,500 hours. Amount of time an American child spends in school, annually: 900 hours.

Our lives may take place over decades. But they're made of one long string of present moments like these. Of course, not all of these moments are this memorable, nor do they have to be. But they're all equally real. You're having a present moment right now. Now you're having another one.

Too often people fear their mortality, rather than feeling reassurance about the opportunities they have during their remaining lifespan. They don't fill their remaining time with experiences and human connections, because they're dwelling on the portion that's already spent.

The present moment is when everything in your life happens. It's the only real time you ever have. But we miss too many of these moments

OS QUATRO CANTORES Pobre Marat em tua casa cercada estás adiantado um século de nós Enquanto tine a lâmpada lá fora e tuas palavras se decompõe escorre-se em sangue toda a verdade que aprendeste

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

He couldn't have fallen in love with her in a couple of hours. Why not? I fell in love with her in a couple of minutes. I worshipped her immediately we met, the popeyed little excrescence.

Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.

The past is over, the future hasn't happened yet, the only time is right now. This can be your threshold moment of change. The next year of your life is going to go by whether you're doing something about your weight or not. Now

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

The leaves of our blessed lives fall to the ground and if we're wise like my grandfather, we gather them in a pile and keep them safe lest the winds of forgetfulness blow them away.

Even the slang of the time – 'Isn't it killing' – had an inbuilt and not entirely unconscious irony.