Quotes About Time

I like this job. I can't right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.

Eu sunt tu si tu esti eu. Suntem singuri, insa nu suntem singuri. Suntem prinsi in timp, dar si infiniti. Suntem facuti din carne, dar si din praf de stele.

We are too aware of numerical time and not aware enough of natural time.

Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live? I am drifting away.

Is there a life where we are still together?

The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

Dünya'da yaÅŸarken bir yere varmak için epey zaman harcamak zorundas?n?z, yollar, raylar, kariyerler, iliÅŸkiler, her ÅŸeyde böyle bu." Sf. 7

No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead. They need to sit down and look at each word consecutively.

Extract from "That it will never come again" by Emily Dickinson reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Lyrics from THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by David Byrne. Courtesy Index Music, Inc.

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

Avem nevoie de timpul pe care il avem deja

The past stays and echoes even as modernity roars ahead.

advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Liebe war der Weg, ewig zu leben in einem einzigen Moment

Als we nu eens een manier konden vinden om de tijd stil te zetten (...) Daaraan moeten we werken. Voor het geval er een gelukkig moment voorbijzweeft. Om dat moment voor eeuwig te hebben, hoeven we alleen maar met ons netje te zwaaien en het als een vlinder te vangen.

Every second of every day we are entering a new universe.

The regrets she had been living with most of her life were wasted ones.

There was nothing else. Nothing but her. She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it.

It was, she decided, a very good time to die.

A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirty thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married or they don't get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die.

Now, consider this. A human life is on average 80 Earth years or around 30,000 Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married, or they don't get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realise they would have done it the same, and then they die.

That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days – some years – some decades – are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.

Remember when we were young enough not to fear tomorrow or mourn yesterday And we were just Us And time was just Now And we were in Life