Quotes About Time

Allora, come lo si guarda? Lo si guarda guardando il permanere della sua persona nel tempo e nello spazio, cioè la memoria di Lui. Si chiama memoria il contenuto tangibile, sensibile, visibile di una cosa che è incominciata nel passato e rimane anche adesso.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

Back at the house. How could you end a whole era and bury a century of life and be home before suppertime? Big Angel could not reconcile himself to this dirty deal they had all been dealt. Death. What a ridiculous practical joke. Every old person gets the punch line that the kids are too blind to see. All the striving, lusting, dreaming, suffering, working, hoping, yearning, mourning, suddenly revealed itself to be an accelerating countdown to nightfall.

Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.' They stared at the rocks in the garden. 'And what do mountains remember?' 'When they were ocean floors.' Big Angel, Zen master.

It was 1965, and he felt he had already lived a hundred years.

He, who endlessly combated his family's reliance on 'Mexican time.' They drove him crazy. If a dinner gathering was announced for six o'clock, he could be sure it wouldn't start until nine. They'd walk in as if they were early. Or worse, they'd say 'What?' as if he were the one with a problem. You know you're Mexican when lunch doesn't show up till ten at night.

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.

She patted Teresita on the head. She was five years older when she rose than when she'd sat down.

Si me dijeran: te quedan veinte años de vida, ¿qué te gustaría hacer durante las veinticuatro horas de cada uno de los días que vas a vivir?, yo respondería: dadme dos horas de vida activa y veinte horas de sueños, con la condición de que luego pueda recordarlos; porque el sueño sólo existe por el recuerdo que lo acaricia.

IF SOMEONE were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.

O futuro era muito melhor antigamente.

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

Y a mí, ya que prefiero escoger mis derrotas, quiero que me recuerdes derrotado, como quien algo espera más allá de los tiempos y los hechos

Y a mí, ya que prefiero escoger mis derrotas, quiero que me recuerdes derrotado, como quien algo espera más allá de los tiempos y los hechos. Quizás porque haga falta haberlo presagiado o porque, en todo caso, nadie sabe dónde acaban los sueños.

Kung sakaling malupit sa iyo ang kapalaran, alalahanin mo ako, dahil hindi mapapagod sa paghihintay itong walang sawang tumitingin sa iyo.

años?». Se conoce que ese reproche lo tenía escondido muy adentro desde hacía mucho tiempo y por fin le salió.

Cuando la atrapa, la mamá la abraza con fuerza y le dice: ¿Ves? Eso es el futuro.

Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...