Quotes About Time

Besides the lonely people and the ones who thought we were darling, there were some … two that day … who really felt it was an omen to open the door and be offered a chance, a choice. They took up the most time, but we didn't mind … waited, breathless too, while they talked to themselves.

Non esiste il passato, ma solo il presente del passato (che poi si chiama «memoria»). Non esiste il futuro, ma solo il presente del futuro (che poi si chiama «speranza»). L'unico

According to recent estimates, life on Earth will last for another billion years, until it will be destroyed by the increase in solar temperature.

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost.

History is the daughter of time.

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

oh antic God return to me my mother in her thirties leaned across the front porch the huge pillow of her breasts pressing against the rail summoning me in for bed. I am almost the dead woman's age times two. I can barely recall her song the scent of her hands though her wild hair scratches my dreams at night. return to me, oh Lord of then and now, my mother's calling, her young voice humming my name.

when you lie awake in the evenings counting your birthdays turn the blood that clots on your tongue into poems. poems. from "The Message of Thelma Sayles

His life had been full of days and his days had been full of life.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Time discovers truth.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.