Quotes About Time

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.

It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.

The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.

Only the past matters, because it is the only thing that outlives everything and everyone.

You can experience and understand history only when you're inside it, but when you're inside it you don't have time or gumption for understanding. All you want is just to stay alive, for which understanding is not necessary. You have no access to history's complex, catastrophic logic, which is indelibly overwhelming and incomprehensible, particularly as you're trying to survive.

Minut može biti isto što i ceo život, ako se doživi usredsre?eno, ako se gleda pažljivo kako promi?u ku?e i prolaznici, ako se zna da se u?inilo ono što se želelo.

Ose?ao se gospodarem vremena i preko njega gospodarem znanja, a kako je verovao da znanje otvara vrata svakoj težnji za boljitkom, ose?ao se i gospodarem svoje sudbine.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

Reasons get forgotten.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Il cuor mi dice che ci rivedremo presto. - Certo, il cuore, chi gli dà retta, ha sempre qualche cosa da dire su quello che sarà. Ma che sà il cuore? Appena un poco di quello che è già accaduto.

Come il fiore già rigoglioso sullo stelo cade insieme col fiorellino ancora in boccio, al passar della falce che pareggia tutte l'erbe del prato.

come il fiore già rigoglioso sullo stelo cade insieme col fiorellino ancora in boccia, al passar della falce che pareggia tutte l'erbe del prato

He aspired to a higher post, once it became vacant, and feared that time was running out. If he got what he wanted, you can be sure that his age would no longer matter to him. He would want nothing more, and he would die happy, as everyone assures us they will the moment they attain something they have wanted badly.

An interview, then, is a moment in a relationship between times: the time of the events, the time of the telling, and, when we factor in the archive, the time of listening.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.