Quotes About Time

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

I'm a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.

Sitting with Rita, I was reminded that the heart is just as fragile at seventy as it is at seventeen. The vulnerability, the longing, the passion—they're all there in full force. Falling in love never gets old.

Mas por que agora?", pergunto, tentando colocar minha nova pergunta com graça: "Parece-me que você estava com aqueles móveis havia... hã... um bom tempo?". Wendell ri. Não escondi muito bem o subtexto. "Às vezes", ele diz, "as mudanças são assim".

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope – it means there's possibility. "I don't know what will happen next – how potentially exciting!" I'm going to have to figure out how to make the most of the life I have, illness or not, partner or not, the march of time notwithstanding.

What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

Love should increase over time, not start at a high," she said. "Real love is developed over time. It's about learning to trust, bond, and build a family together, with or without children. So I'm in favor of not overthinking yourself to death in the beginning. Women, especially, tend to rule people out too quickly.

There's also the issue of glitches. I was once on a Skype session with a patient who was in Asia temporarily, and just as she began crying hysterically, the volume went out. All I saw was her mouth moving, but she didn't know that I couldn't hear what she was saying. Before I could get that across, the connection dropped entirely. It took ten minutes to restore the Skype, and by then not only was the moment lost but our time had run out.)

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea. We knew that our supervisor was trying to tell us something important. But we didn't have time to think about it.

You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

we're all time-traveling into the future and at exactly the same rate: sixty minutes per hour.

It turns out that most of us aren't aware of how we actually spend our time or what we really do all day until we break it down hour by hour and say it out loud.

I've been watching his future unfold while I stay frozen in the past. But if I live in the present, I'll have to accept the loss of my future.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.

Fitzgerald put it, "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"),

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea.

as Fitzgerald put it, "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"), my stomach tightens and I feel paralyzed.

You have a limited time to live, and your dream is to work at Trader Joe's?

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Are people really supposed to be done grieving after two months? Can't grief last six months or a year or, in some form or another, an entire lifetime?

This bereavement exclusion no longer exists, partly because of the timeline: Are people really supposed to be done grieving after two months? Can't grief last six months or a year or, in some form or another, an entire lifetime?

Spend less time on his future, more on my present." Wendell nods,