Quotes About Time

I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

If you stand / there long enough the air will thicken / with dusk and dust and exhaust / and finally with / a starless dark. The day will become something / it's never been before, something for / which I have no name.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.

Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.

Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, 'Come along o' me, it's time.

in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor...

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.

Perhaps some particles move backwards in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are. There are many things we haven't yet learned how to read.

She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.

So, wondering whether any lovers before them had made this blissful discovery, they lay together as the earth turned slowly and the moon and stars blazed above them.

When you're young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don't.

All the time I was away, Lyra said, I never thought about that. All I thought about was just the time I was in, just the present. There were plenty of times when I thought I didn't get a future at all. And now... Well, suddenly finding I've got a whole life to live, but no...but no idea what to do with it, well, it's like having the alethiometer but no idea how to read it.

That's interesting," said Dr. Lieberson. "History's not over, you see. It's happening all the time.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

I lied and lied, Asriel… Let's not wait too long, I can't bear it… We won't live, will we? We won't survive like the ghosts?" "Not if we fall into the abyss. We came here to give Lyra time to find her dæmon, and then time to live and grow up. If we take Metatron to extinction, Marisa, she'll have that time, and if we go with him, it doesn't matter.

One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.

They sat for a while longer and then parted. For it was late and they were old and anxious.