Quotes About Time

My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

War leaves you precious little time to be human. It's one of the more horrible realities about it.

Like life is short," he said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said.

It gets sort of Zen after a while," Butters said brightly. "Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.

Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It's not made of metal, really. It's made of time. How much is one's time worth? If one can convince enough people that one's time is an invaluable resource, then one has lots and lots of money. That's why one can spend time—only one can never get a refund.

Death isn't when your body stops working. It's when there's no more future. When you can't see past right now, because you stopped believing in tomorrow.

She is my child," Charity objected. "She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

I can't tell you how many jobs I've done without a hitch since the last time I saw you, Dresden. You walk through the door and everything goes to hell." "That's embroidered on my towels, actually," I said.

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love.

Time, time," Toot complained. "Is that all you mortals can ever think about? Everyone's complaining about time! The whole city rushes left and right screaming about being late and honking horns! You people used to have it right, you know.

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short.

She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time.

Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.

I had time to think, though I wasn't sure I wanted to.

It's one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?" And that's how I knew that Mort was telling the whole truth when he said he wasn't a hero. Heroes know better than to hand the universe lines like that.