Quotes About Time

couples don't love at the same time and for the same reason

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

We have one life: it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Agissez comme si votre mort était pour demain, mais accomplissez vos devoirs comme si vous deviez vivre l'éternité.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

We are all migrants through time.

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

While they wished to look out for each other, and to keep tabs on each other, staying in touch took a toll on them, serving as an unsettling reminder of a life not lived, and also they grew less worried each for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime.

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas»

No se puede pensar sobre el después cuando el ahora está inundado de dolor.

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas» —dijo Fidel enfatizando

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

We'll let time knit these gentle ties between us.

Le temps qui fuit nous y convie Profitons de la vie Autant que nous pouvons.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Time now seemed to have receded, to be an enormous empty room which she must furnish, like any other aimless woman, with celluloid shadows of other people's happiness, with music that worked one up for nothing.

What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life