Quotes About Time

We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

A composition that we do not understand or like appears to expand in time as we experience it, yet vanishes almost immediately from memory.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

The past is a springboard for me….Ancient things are new things. Everything lives in the moment; that's the only time it can live, but its influence can go on forever.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Know also that you might find different parts of your soul scattered in different times, spaces, and lifetimes, and even lingering in between lifetimes. Ask the Divine to gather all parts of your soul and sew them together with love, cleansing, healing, and integrating them through this process. Many mental health disorders are actually outgrowths of a fragmented soul and begin to heal once we're made whole again.

When Flora was a young girl she used to try to "fix" moments in her memory. The notion that years of her life would pass and she would only remember snippets, seconds of the whole, distressed her. She came up with a plan and at various times-walking home from school or out with friends or just sitting at her desk she would think: This. Remember this.

One was good…wings spread from his back. Angels bowed to him. And his brother… He had a really fucking good time as he did his very, very bad things.

We have a serious problem to deal with, and we don't have time for territorial male crap.

Got to be the first time I ever saw a real angel leave a snow angel in her wake.

Where the hell had the years gone by? How had he spent them? In a strange kind of capitulation, that's how. An acceptance of the very privilege most people spend a lifetime trying to achieve.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.

At the beginning of summer it always feels like there's so much time ahead: whole empty calendar pages of sunshine, warm sea breezes, midnight thunderstorms, and running barefoot in the grass. Enough afternoons to do every single thing you wanted to do and even some days left over to do nothing at all. But somehow summer fills up and flies by" -Lily

Good-bye isn't the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it's simply time to go.

If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, "Sorry, gotta go!

It's too late.

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.