Quotes About Time

Le cose che non sono state durano sempre. Non voltarti indietro

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. The wheel has turned and the season of grief has passed. I am Lazarus resurrected from an emotional grave. Like Lazarus, I suspect I will always be aware of the grave, but still I say, let the dance of life go on.

Two nurses with scissors could make a man naked in eleven seconds.

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.' She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.' 'But that will never mean I love you less,' he said.

When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I'd ever seen, where the trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-la.

You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it's giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You've accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.

And for Narnie, hours without them went by, and then days, and then weeks. And in between those seconds and minutes and hours and day and weeks was the most acute sense of loneliness she'd ever experienced

You don't speak to him for eighteen years, and you still share a whistle? Froi whispered. Nothing wrong with a whistle. Froi chuckled.

Y la vida sigue, lo cual parece una extraña crueldad cuando estás viendo morir a alguien. Pero hay una alegría y una abundancia de todo, como de información y risas y tiempo veraniego y tantas historias contadas.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

And I said, 'I'm thinkin' I've wasted too much time thinkin', is what I'm thinkin'.

And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.

There's not enough time spend between the sheet's to compensate the breach

You've been in the Wild World for long enough to know that everything changes... -Burnet to Moss

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.