Quotes About Time

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is dialogue with you.

How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.

Everyone is too young when their mother dies.

It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

Other than when you are very close to a deadline, however, you should not put off refactoring because you haven't got time. Experience with several projects has shown that a bout of refactoring results in increased productivity. Not having enough time usually is a sign that you need to do some refactoring.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle.

Nada es tan melancólico como la muerte de la belleza.

Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day

Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one" W Somerset Maugham, British novelist

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

Longevity is highly over rated.