Quotes About Time

Curiously, the darkness seemed to have something to do with Harriet, Ron's intended, and I thought for a time that it was simply the reality of Harriet's arrival that had dramatized the passing of time: we had been talking about it and now suddenly it was here — just as Brenda's departure would be here before we knew it.

hoe weemoedig hij soms ook mocht kijken naar zulke echtparen in de vallende schemering of op zondagmiddagen, de week had nog meer uren en hun leven was niets voor hem, als hij zijn melancholie weer de baas was

There is no life without patience.

Life is just a short period of time in which we are alive.

Das Alter ist kein Kampf; es ist ein Massaker.

ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa.

La vejez no es una batalla; la vejez es una masacre.

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.

Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the post for a young girl to hold in Jersey City during the First World War.

Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura.

Never before—the great refrain of 1942.

What a paradox. Well, you can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.

Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is

My feelings just started to change. It wasn't all him. It took time, but after time passed I felt something was missing, and I'm selfish, I can only feel like I'm giving more than I'm getting for so long, then things change.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

It's time for our warring tribes to understand a simple reality: that to embrace illiberalism and intolerance is to court dissolution.

To put this immense time period in perspective, the Thirteenth Amendment—which abolished slavery—was ratified on December 6, 1865. We will have to live on this continent more than eighty additional years before the time after slavery will match in length the time during slavery. And if you include the century of Jim Crow that existed before the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in 1964, formal legal subjugation of African Americans endured for a stunning 345 years.

Waking up in full daylight, he dials 0 and asks if this is Saturday. A reproachful second goes by before the operator says, "This is Friday, sir.

If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you, said Diagoras. Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever. Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

We study, said Serbitar. And we train, and we plant flowers and raise horses. Our time is well occupied, I can assure you. No wonder you want to go away and die somewhere, said Rek with feeling.

La creazione richiede tempo e amore, la distruzione solo qualche secondo di follia.

Siamo tutti foglie, amico mio. La nostra vita paragonata a quella delle montagne e a quella del mare è niente, qualche battito del cuore e via. Niente di ciò che noi costruiamo dura in eterno.

But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never.