Quotes About Time

Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong.

I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

years, according to my wish, of health, of leisure

In the second century of the Christian Aera

I've decided that, as somebody's pointed out, the older you get, it's very difficult to tell how much younger anyone else is. I mean I can't really tell the difference now between people who are fifteen and people who are thirty-five.

What is history?, our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects our own position in time, and forms part of our answer to the broader question, what view we take of the society in which we live.

God's already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He's sick to the nucleus of His soul. He's not going to show Himself—you're not worth His time. God's gone. He's fuckin' busy, man.

It was a curious sort of immortality. Everyone in the world would repeat one hour, forever, and never realize that time had come to a quivering halt at that point. And Myron Castleman would be permitted to live forever, piling up experiences and memories, but each of only an hour's duration, each resumed at 12:01 PM on this balmy spring day in Manhattan, standing outside near the Grand Central Tower.

Edward Rutherfurd

As we grow older, we become more aware of the larger flow of life

Edward Rutherfurd

By this time, the Julian was already eleven days behind the Gregorian calender. But it was better to be a little late than to agree with the Pope!

but there was no need. For at that

Precisely," Meredith smiled. "If they want to know where they are they'll follow the time of the Royal Observatory. We shall call it Greenwich time," he added.

The way other people felt about love, he felt about heroin, and he felt about love the way other people felt about heroin: that it was a dangerous and incomprehensible waste of time.

At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...

There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that they were dangling from its jaws, like Saturn's children, already half-devoured.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, the present, disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!

The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.

The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.

I know' said Patrick. 'It was a terrible shock to me when I realized I was getting too old to die young anymore.

Despite all their rooftop antics, the only proposition they really had to offer was that luck multiplied by time transubstantiated matter.

I have a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. —Charlie Brown