Quotes About Time

I had come to a new way of thinking about time. It's not the hard and fixed thing we imagine it to be, no, it's something soft and pleated, and under extreme pressure, it folds

I am alone. I can see nothing at all. For ten minutes, I am lost.

Be a dad. Don't be "Mom's Assistant".... Be a man.... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids.... It won't take away your manhood, it will give it to you.

Hij begreep niet waarom hij zoo oud moest worden, terwijl de dingen zoo langzaam voorbij gingen, stille voorbij, maar zóo slepend, als waren ze, de dingen van vroeger, spoken, die slierden heel lange sluiers langs heel lange paden, en als ritselden de sluiers over de warrelende bladeren, die neêrdwarrelden over het pad.

Wat vermodderd was, was vermodderd: het leven, eenmaal vergooid, was niet meer terug te winnen.

Plotseling omhuiverde Lucius de heilige vrees voor Wat Is Geweest. En kwam hem klein voor, zijn eigen leven en leed...

Groote God, wat was het ellendig... dat aftakelen, dat oud worden, dat zich voortslepen van de dagen, de jaren; wat was het ellendig, dat alles wat je kreeg van het leven, je betalen moest met je jonge dagen eerst, en later met je oudere jaren - als was het leven een bank, waarop je wissels trok, - als was je bestaan een kapitaal, waarvan je leefde, en nooit spaarde een cent - zoodat, als je dood zoû zijn, je ook alles en alles verspild had...

O, laat het verleden herinnering zijn, heilige herinneringen, goudene herinneringen, maar zie nu aan het heden! O, laat het heden je troosten, het heden, klein, nederig en arm.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

I cannot drug my life with the present moment; The present moment may rape--but all in vain-- The future, for the future remains a virgin Who must be tried again.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

There aren't any other times or worlds. That's how everything gets messed up, thinking like that.

Incluso la época de agobio es digna de respeto, pues es obra no del hombre, sino de la Humanidad y, por lo tanto, de la naturaleza creadora, que puede ser dura, pero jamás absurda. Si es dura la época en que vivimos, tanto más debemos amarla, empaparla de nuestro amor, hasta que logremos desplazar las pesadas masas de materia que ocultan la luz que brilla al otro lado.

When my death us do part Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, Or will it be, as always was, too late?

You have only one life, make the most of it

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

You only have one life. You should never be too busy to save it.