Quotes About Time

Cherry blossoms – lights of years past.

The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. —Bash?: Oku-no-hosomichi

Everyone in this house has gray hair, walks with a cane, visits the graveyard

Year by year/The monkey's mask/Reveals the monkey.

Many things of the past Are brought to my mind, As I stand in the garden Staring at a cherry tree.

Moon almost full I'm thirty-nine a child still

Skylark sings all day, and day not long enough.

In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must die.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Still alive I am At the end of a long dream On my journey, Fall of an autumn day.

Even a summer day isn't long enough for singing skylarks

First rain of winter today's a day people get older

Autumn again getting old is like a bird flying into a cloud

55. Yellow rose petals/thunder-/a waterfall 65. Butterfly-/Winds curve into white poppy. 67. First winter rain-/I plod on,/traveler my name. 75. Wake butterfly-/it's late, we've miles/to go together. 93. Peony-/the bee can't bear to part. 94. Has it returned,/the snow/we viewed together? 95. No moon, no flowers, no friend-/and he drinks sake, 96. Unknown spring-/plum blossom/behind the mirror. 136. Wintry day,/on my horse/a frozen shadow.

Clouds come from time to time - and bring to men a chance to rest from looking at the moon.

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.

I wonder when you stopped telling me everything Yuki.In ten years,that`s the only thing that has ever changed.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit — like watching the news — from your life.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Well, look, I have to go. Gotta' get up early and waste some more money on my overpriced education.

The fact that everyone's days were numbered, and it didn't matter if you were in premier class or worked in housekeeping. Those were only costumes people wore. And once you stripped them away you saw the truth. This giant ocean and this dark pressing sky. We only have a few minutes, but the unexplainable world is constant and forever marching forward.

How weird to think that people were born in different eras, with different adversities. A world war for one generation. Earthquakes and a deadly disease for the next.

A relationship needs constant attention. It's a living thing, not just a habit. You've got to keep on top of it.

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.