Quotes About Time

Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ?

Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out. Can what is playing you make it to level-2?

This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God.

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1

Following the exuberant celebrations after signing with EMI it was time to get down to some serious work. Unlike many other bands, we had not paid our musical dues. In fact, we had barely put down a deposit. We had invested no serious time on the road, nor spent a year playing the clubs on the Reeperbahn.

Storm also recalls that Syd adored the Beatles, at a time when most of his friends preferred the Stones.

The hour of our release draws near.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

It was one of those cold, wet winter days when if you get stuck watching sport or an old movie, you can miss that short period between dawn and dusk altogether.

Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

When she left it was the last full swell of summer, when apples hung formed but still green from the trees.

Beginnings are delicate times.

The people who built these churches understood wood, and they were not in a hurry.

She swung her hair back from her face and eyed me sullenly, now the perfect teenager. Infant to child to teen in one day. With any luck she'd be dead of old age before we reached the clearing.

He was always just about to leave, always about to pick up the phone, and he always persuaded himself for a minute or two that stretched into thirty, into two hours, into night. We go back a long way.

Gods were like the flotsam that washed up with the waves, always coming and going, and those big enough to remain gradually were worn away by wind and water and time.

I'm your friend. I have been for a long time, even if I sometimes wonder if you know what that means.

The late afternoon sky over the lake this time was grey, but the water laughed and sparkled, reflecting the blue sky and other time and place.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.

Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)

Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid. But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday's splendid future?

Wenn ein Reaktionär von "unvermeidlicher Restauration" spricht, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, dass der Reaktionär in Jahrtausenden rechnet.