Quotes About Time

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it.

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER

As a man who felt that he had been born too late, Jeffy was often amazed at what passed for high art in this low age.

You can only be in one place at a time, odd one. So it's imperative that you be in the right place for the right reason

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

All the windows were fogged over now. Neither Walt nor Lem tried to clear the misted glass. Unable to see out of the car, confined to its humid and claustrophobic interior, they seemed to be cut off from the real world, adrift in time and space, a condition that was oddly conducive to the consid eration of the wondrous and outrageous acts of creation that genetic engineering made possible.

impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

Planck minimums of space and time all the way to the gravitational fine-structure constant.

perhaps a sea again, or a jungle, because all things pass.

His clairvoyance is time travel achieved without leaving the present

Life was too short to dwell on nightmares instead of dreams.

The curtains of the past part, and he sees what has been; the mists of the future clear, and he sees an event yet to occur.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

Sarah seems to be Sarah now, but what will she be two hours from now

Untuk segala sesuatu ada masanya. Ada waktu untuk membunuh dan ada waktu untuk menyembuhkan.

Like most modern art, they interested her no more than did the wind-tangled rain-compacted sun-bleached trash that time accumulated in vomitous-looking masses along California's cracked and potholed highways, as the once-golden state stewed in government corruption on its way to bankruptcy.

The correct question has three equal parts. What's wrong with humanity? Then…what's wrong with nature, with its poison plants, predatory animals, earthquakes, and floods? And last…what's wrong with cosmic time, as we know it, which steals everything from us?

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

I wanted time for my heart to heal and for my head to wrap itself around these major life changes.

She kept thinking about their meal at Zorba's. The recipes were the same as they'd been years ago, but the experience wasn't.