Quotes About Time

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

Justice, like the will of God, doesn't always manifest itself on the spur of the moment. It doesn't always come when you think it should. You just gotta wait it out. And

The invention of the clock has altered human pleasure. There are minutes and seconds in the day now, and not enough for love.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

La vida hay que vivirla mirando hacia el futuro, pero solo se entiende si tenemos en cuenta nuestro pasado.

Comenzó a pasar más tiempo esperando a su príncipe azul que estando con él.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?

Pero el despertador, privado de cuerda durante tantos días, ya no señala el tiempo, señala la eternidad.

Ma ancora una volta si ripete che l'unico passato reale è quello che perdura nella memoria e che l'unica perdurabile memoria è la scrittura. [...] Forse la letteratura, forse la mia letteratura, rettifica, non svolge altra missione che quella di perfezionare il passato affinché l'avvenire si riprometta di non essere da meno (196).

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.