Quotes About Time

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Yet I know these are the happy years. And ahead of us are only great disasters.

And each morning the sun came up weaker and whiter, like an old man rising from his bed, and each morning's chill was slower giving up the ground.

Really how life gets on is a secret, you only know your memory, and it makes its own time. The real time leads you along and you never know when it happens, the best that can be is come and gone.

if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected lightsuch as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.

During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

They waited for miles and miles of time

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.

In the end It will not matter That I was a woman. I am sure of it. The body is a source. Nothing more. There is a time for it. There is a certainty About the way it seeks its own dissolution.

I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in. -A WOMAN PAINTED ON LEAF (In a Time of Violence)

the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.

You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

The present moment is all you will ever have.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.