Quotes About Time

My heart is sad, my eyes grow dim, Yet do I put my trust in Him, And in due time, all sorrow past, In safety home I'll come at last.

And if it once is so, it is so always; no one can go back, and he whom God has forgotten, is forgotten for ever.

Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher's mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. - from Twayne's US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.

Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.

The older friendships get, the newer they become.

Friendships never grow old; they only last longer and gets newer and fresher everyday.

Never be afraid to grow old with your friends; for it's when you grow old together that you become the most trusted and sweetest friends of all.

Time does not diminish friendships; it just beautifies it.

Friendships are older than friends.

You cannot afford to lose every friendship you make; some friendships are seriously needed to be maintained into your old age.

You can be in friendship with people for a number of years without having them as your friends.

It takes time to have a friend, but no matter how long it takes; try and make one.

Intimacy is a gradual process. It takes time. So wait for awhile before you call people your intimate friends.

Friendship is not automatic.

Parents who have no time to build friendships with their children, have already ended up exposing them to many deviant behaviours.

Many are the children who have become the company of wrong friends because their parents had no time to build friendships with them.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.

There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

It was Celeste, his mom. Only now she was younger than he was.