Quotes About Time

Opreste-te, am soptit. Dar timpul nu se opreste. Nici macar cand il rogi frumos.

All new future begins at midnight."~Mrs. Elm

She texted back. It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

Nimic nu dureaza la nesfarsit. Durerea asta n-o sa tina la nesfarsit. Durerea minte. Ignor-o! Durerea e o datorie pe care o platesti cu timpul.

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it, the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was. The ever-moving, ever-changing present. And the present was fickle. It could only be caught by letting go.

I want you to Slow down I just want it all To slow down; I want to make a forest Of a moment And live in that forest For ever Before you go

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. [Tom Hazard]

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present.

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Those first weeks in the prep kitchen I peeled dozens of cases of carrots, chopped quart upon quart of chives, and I came eventually to appreciate something in the rhythm of an endless, repetitive task, one that turns you so inward you forget anyone's there, and snap back to reality only when the timer on the oven buzzes—so loud the sound seems to lodge itself between the back of your neck and your throat.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

time always erodes advantage.

It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

Eric Garner was murdered by history. The motive was the secret sin of a divided society, a country frozen in time for more than fifty years, stopped one crucial step short of reconciliation and determined to stay there.

A fragmented task takes more time than a blocked-time task.

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

We count the hours: these dreams of ours, false and hollow, Shall we go hence and find they are not dead?