Quotes About Time

I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

On entend souvent parler du "poids des années"... Foutaises ! Le temps nous vide !

Tudo lá parecia impregnado de eternidade.

La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.

la nostalgia es la mayor de las penitencias que cumplen los hombres al paso de los años.

Nada es excepcional. En todo lugar han sucedido todas las cosas, aún las más inverosímiles y raras, porque el mundo es muy viejo y hace largo tiempo ya que no inventa, que no renueva su stock de posibilidades.

Imposible mencionar a San Ángel sin recordar tiempos que pasaron y que, como las golondrinas de Bécquer, no volverán.

No creo en eso de vivir el momento, Molina, nadie vive el momento.

Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado?   ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena

Past, present, future: where are you?

Desde el momento en que nacemos, también se inicia la vejez

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

a relationship with time that removes all relevance from the distinction between memory and forgetting, something like a rediscovery or, as in the case of the ritual when it is successful, a renewal.

Writing plays the role of ritual when ritual is effective and manages to give those participating or attending the feeling that it reopens time.

thus frame the evocation of a nonlinear time in which the after can be richer and more precise than the before, a time that remains in the face of time that passes, a time that provides pleasure and happiness.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

the expression "beyond age" is meant simply to apply to the multiplicity of times present in each of us at every instant