Quotes About Time

The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.

Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing.

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Your past is my Future.

Delayed gratification. Yeah, it makes things sweeter. Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. The sight brings on an oppressive sadness that no car about to hit you or water about to drown you can match. The feeling is truly unbearable.

So I drifted. Winds and currents decided where I went. Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude.

Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

I was as surprised as a flower that sees for the first time a bee coming towards it

On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, 'Gosh, life is racing by.' But that's not it at all, it's the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Celui qui passe à coté de la plus belle histoire de sa vie n'aura que l'âge de ses regrets et tous les soupirs du monde ne sauraient bercer son âme.

Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent. Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.

Je me suis souvenue des soixante ans de mon père. On avait mangé une choucroute à la République. C'était l'âge qu'avaient les parents. Un âge immense et abstrait. Maintenant c'est toi qui l'as. Comment est-ce possible? Une fille fait les quatre cents coups, se trimbale dans la vie juchée et peinturlurée et tout à coup se met à avoir soixante ans.

Solitude is long. The joys that connect us leave almost no trace.

Most of the people I meet, including my daughter, have only the most trivial grasp of time.