Quotes About Time

The broad daylight of habitual memory gradually fades our images of the past, wears them away until nothing is left of them and the past becomes irrecoverable.

this early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor than he is like the other people I knew at that time, as though one's life were a series of galleries in which all the portraits of any one period had a marked family likeness, the same (so to speak) tonality

La muraille de l'escalier où je vis monter le reflet de sa bougie n'existe plus depuis longtemps. En moi aussi bien des choses ont été détruites que je croyais devoir durer toujours, et de nouvelles se sont édifiées, donnant naissance à des peines et à des joies nouvelles que je n'aurais pu prévoir alors, de même que les anciennes me sont devenues difficiles à comprendre.

Self-interest implicit in not being wrong in our pre-judgment limits the time we shall remember it and encourages us to believe we never indulged in it.

Vakit kaybetmemek için yataktan kalkt?m, ama ac? beni oldu?um yere çiviledi: O gitti?inden beri ilk kez yataktan kalk?yordum.

For what people have once done they will do again indefinitely, and if you go every year to see a friend who, the first time, was not able to meet you at the appointed place, or was in bed with a chill, you will find him in bed with another chill which he has just caught, you will miss him again at another meeting-place at which he has failed to appear, for a single and unalterable reason in place of which he supposes himself to have various reasons, drawn from the circumstances.

bij alles wat het stempel draagt van de werkelijke dood, die zo verschilt van zijn logische en abstracte mogelijkheid ...

No doubt it is because memories do not remain true for ever, and because life is made up of the endless renewal of cells, that love is not eternal.

Marcel retrospectively remembers moments of anxious anticipation just as he imagines in advance moments when he will have forgotten what he is now feeling. For in fact we negotiate with the memory of our emotions, as much as, if not more than, with our raw emotions themselves.

Men who believe that their work will last—as was the case with Elstir—form the habit of placing that work in a period when they themselves will have crumbled into dust. And thus, by obliging them to reflect on their own extinction, the thought of fame saddens them because it is inseparable from the thought of death

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.

Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls by the roadside. The best way to tell how long a thing will last is ask how long it's been around for. The newest things end soonest. And things that have been around for a good long while will last awhile to come.

Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «Ã¢â'¬Â¦ y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir».

Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?

Why the hell did I have them if I didn't use them? It makes no sense to wait for the right moment because it never arrives. That moment doesn't exist.

seis años son suficientes para hacerse muchas preguntas y, si no eres una idiota, para haberles encontrado respuesta a las que la tienen. Las otras, sencillamente hay que borrarlas del disco duro. Lo significativo es saber distinguirlas.

After the gravedigger's testimony had been heard, the judge spoke to Marcella. "Signorina," he said, "we are too busy here with serious matters to spend time on such foolishness. Take your skull, go home, and don't let us see you again.

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

También nosotros en algún momento de nuestra vida, de repente, nos encontramos con una cuerda menos. Pero debemos continuar porque el desafío "es descubrir cuánta música se puede hacer con lo que a uno le queda". Sufrimos de dolor y lloramos la pérdida de un ser querido, y sentimos que se detuvo la música de nuestra vida. Pero en algún momento, no en un día, no en una semana, no de un jalón, sino lentamente, a veces dos

No es cuánto vivimos: supongo que en gran parte es cómo vivimos cada momento. Cada hora. Cada día".

Uno de nuestros pecados cardinales son las cosas que casi hacemos, las palabras que casi decimos, el amor que casi damos. ¿Por qué esperamos hasta que es demasiado tarde?

La Biblia enseña sabiamente que hay un tiempo para todo. Hay un tiempo para sufrir y llorar, pero también hay un tiempo para levantarse nuevamente y vivir.