Quotes About Time

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existed.

aber vor allem: standhalten, dem Licht, der Freude (wie unser Kind als es sang) im Wissen, dass ich erlösche im Licht über Ginster, Asphalt und Meer, standhalten der Zeit, beziehungsweise Ewigkeit im Augenblick. Ewig sein: gewesen sein.

Das schönste an einem Kuß ist jawohl, daß er nicht siebzig Jahre dauert. Es stelle sich jeder mal vor, er würde noch heute im Rachen dessen wühlen, den er als erstes küßte!

Bliss in that age was it to be alive.' (He says) 'Why do people regard a period like this as years lost out of our lives when beyond question it is the most interesting period of them? Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?

Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.

The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time ("Spanish Generosity")

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

The Shen is a circle, representing endless time, eternity, bound to a horizontal bar, the earthly plane once more. It protects life by isolating and enclosing it, defining that which it surrounds, defending it against hostile forces.

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old.

Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury," even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

One of the mightiest features of this revolution that I personally feel every single day is that back in the old days, we used to change over years. Today, we change within a matter of hours.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined. There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes upshe is almost fifty years old.Time to start planning her retirement cottage.