Quotes About Time

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...

Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Someone died today. Someone was born today. It's not just a day—it's a moment.

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.

There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

An unholy altered state of mindStalking with intent from behindThe needless lonely empty timeThat's filled my life- that's so unkind

Time's relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion...

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

Death doesn't always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.