Quotes About Time

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

I get up at the same time every morning.

That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

What does a person need?' she proclaimed one day after the first spoonful of dessert. 'Not much: something sweet to eat, and a story to tell, and time and space, and gladioluses in a vase, and two friends, and two hilltops, one on which to stand and the other upon which to gaze. And two eyes for watching the heavens and waiting....

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

Yet the now of time is infinitesimally small. If you remove the now of time, you are in all places and possess all time.

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

The past is history, the future's a mystery. If you've got a foot in each, you're pissing on today.

Always living for a better tomorrow or running from a numbing past, we inhabit this present moment like a shabby motel on the way to somewhere else. In doing this, we cheapen and degrade our only possession, which is simply this moment and right here and now. If pressed, we really couldn't say where it is that we're in such a rush to get to.

It is the calendar that says: "Right now is the time. Who could want another?

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

time before history" is because it was an era that came and went without leaving a trace of itself. Since nothing went "wrong, " nobody had any reason to write anything down. It was lived, not recorded.

La gente parla solo per dar fiato alla lingua, e lei non ha più voglia di perdere tempo con le sciocchezze. Si è sottoposta a una terapia di disintossicazione dalle cose superflue. Mese dopo mese le cose importanti si sono rivelate sempre meno. Alla fine sono rimaste solo la salute, la libertà, la vita.