Quotes About Time

For the brief span of our lifetimes, everything remains there on the screen, distressingly present; first images of eros and premonitions of death catch up with us in every dream; the end of the world began with us and shows no signs of ending; the film we thought we were merely watching is the story of our lives.

Volare è il contrario del viaggio: attraversi una discontinuità dello spazio, sparisci nel vuoto, accetti di non essere in nessun luogo per una durata che è anch'essa una specie di vuoto nel tempo; poi riappari, in un luogo e in un momento senza rapporto col dove e col quando in cui eri sparito.

In the course of millions of years there was no form of living creature that hadn't had its opportunity to come forth, populate the Earth, and then—in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—decline and vanish.

Ma ogni momento della mia vita porta con sé un'accumulazione di fatti nuovi e ognuno di questi fatti nuovi porta con sé le sue conseguenze, cosicché più cerco di tornare al momento zero da cui sono partito più me ne allontano.

Ancient beauty is powerless against new ugliness.

Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?

I am the I of the present

O aspeto em que a cópula e a leitura mais se parecem é que dentro delas se abrem tempos e espaços diferentes do tempo e do espaço medíveis.

I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it.

If you ask, "Why is Thekla's construction taking such a long time?" the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer, "So that its destruction cannot begin." And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, "Not only the city.

It is only when they have the photos before their eyes that they seem to take tangible possession of the day they spent, only then that the mountain stream, the movement of the child with his pail, the glint of the sun on the wife's legs, take on the irrevocability of what has been and can no longer be doubted. Everything else can drown in the unreliable shadow of memory.

E' strano trovare ai nostri tempi una persona ingenua. Viene voglia di guarirla da una malattia tanto adorabile.

Pare che ricordare non sia una vera azione. Il ricodo lo si subisce immobile. Chi ricorda e chi è ricordato s'immobilizzano.

I wanted again May roses in December. I

Ci voleva poco acume per indovinare che quella lunga disquisizione sulla vecchiaia non significava altro che il mio timore che trovandomi in corsa traverso il tempo, non potessi più essere raggiunto dall'amore. Pareva gridassi all'amore: «Vieni, vieni!» Invece non sono sicuro di aver voluto quell'amore e, se v'è un dubbio, risulta solo dal fatto che so di aver scritto circa così.

Pare che ricordare non sia una vera azione. Il ricordo lo si subisce immobile. Chi ricorda e chi è ricordato s'immobilizzano.

She came to the ranch on one of the first pale chilly days of an autumn, hired to cook for us for a few months, and stayed on in our lives for almost three years. Her time with us is a strange season all mist and dusk and half-seen silhouettes, half-heard cries. there is nothing like it in the sortings of my memory.

In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.

People come and go in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever; and that is a fresh saga everytime.

PEOPLE COME AND GO in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever, and that is a fresh saga every time.

America in that agitated time; not merely a nation, but something like a continental nervous condition.

EVEN WHEN IT STANDS VACANT THE PAST IS NEVER EMPTY.

The past casts a tricky shadow

THERE ARE MOMENTS in a lifetime when you can taste history as it is happening. When the flavor of time, from one hour to the next, somehow is not quite the same as any day before.