Quotes About Time

Whereas things exist, are in space and time and have properties such as hardness, colour, etc.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

The profession and the developments of a doctrine are according to the emergency of the time, and silence at a certain period implies, not that it was not then held, but that it was not questioned.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

She taught me that the world would continue without me. And eventually I learned that lesson. It took some time...Everything is cliche. Her death taught me that life is short.

I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working at the literary agency. For how much longer in my life would I have believed there was time for everything? And by the time I faced my own mortality at the Bookmill in western Massachusetts, how much less would I have done? Her leaving taught me about the worst sadness, one we all must face eventually. I feel lucky I am better equipped to help others who are going through it now.

when you are shooting a television show, time is more important than any one performance. If you are doing a bad job at acting, I had learned, they will not bother to tell you. That would be a waste of time, and it might put you into an emotional hole that would also waste time. And by the same token, I had learned that when they say you have done a good job at acting, they are probably lying.

This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.

And you are forced to say, No. I have to get back to my family. This is the most convenient time for me to have him poisoned. And you know you are a monster after all, a sick animal that no one has the decency to put down.

But even though we were all horrifying reminders of our own mortality, it was nice to see my old, crumbling friends.

Certainty can only be on the side of domination. Certainty is to be found in the homogenisation of time, in the freezing of doing into being. Self-determination is inherently uncertain. The death of the old certainties is to be welcomed as a liberation.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.

Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

And never forget, there is memory.

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don''t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro--to and fro. If, at this moment in time Twisted River also appeared restless, even impatient, maybe the river itself wanted the boy's body to move on, too, move on, too.

You should wait, William, Miss Frost said. The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.

Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.