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Quotes About Time

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.
~ Unknown
If grief had a permanence, then didn't also love?
~ Unknown
Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is
~ Unknown
You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
~ Margot Kidder
All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite.
~ Unknown
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
~ Marguerite Duras
Very early in my life it was too late.
~ Marguerite Duras
I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.
~ Marguerite Duras
The survey of the time spent in the home by most housewives established that, on average, they worked 75 hours a week, with overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. This did not take into account that a number of women were also doing part or full-time work outside the home.
~ Unknown
Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.
~ Mari Mancusi
Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.
~ Unknown
Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.
~ Unknown
Any season / is a season for blood, if you look at it in the right light.
~ Unknown
Once upon a time, he was the child of some other mother, and his beloved was a wonder of the world.
~ Unknown
Sa nu pierzi vremea cat esti in viata, sa-i saruti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i saruti si sa-i iubesti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i iubesti.
~ Unknown
Forever isn't always something one would choose, given all the information.
~ Unknown
Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.
~ Unknown
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.
~ Unknown
We serve the future by protecting the present.
~ Maria Montessori
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
~ Maria Schell