Quotes About Time

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

But what does ready matter, when it's happening?

One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression.

There's only so long that you can stare at a wall before you feel like an idiot.

But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that all.' 'You really think love needs to have a future?' 'Absolutely.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed-' '-things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.' Sofia nodded. 'Funny how we say it goes. That's just the way life goes.' 'That's the way life comes just sounds so awkward.' 'Well, sometimes you can see the future come, no?

abyss, n. There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.

So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, Hey, that could be us in ten years. And Hugo said, Or ten months. And Austin said, Or ten days. And Hugo said, Or ten minutes. And Austin said, Or ten seconds. Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day.

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted - surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen -A

Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

Ulimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Seconds pass with every door. Minutes pass with every street. Elijah never realizes that he's lost, so he has no trouble finding his way back.

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

Sei disso há algum tempo, mas você pode saber de algo durante anos sem que isso realmente o atinja.

once time is lit, it twill burn whether or not you're breathing it in. even after smoke becomes air there is the memory of smoke

The joy is in remembering; the pain is knowing it was yesterday.

Incluso cuando la mente descarta la historia de amor, hay ocasiones que el cuerpo tarda en captar el mensaje.