Quotes About Time

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Modern man does not live in space and time, but in geometry and chronometry.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.

Worauf steuert die Welt zu? Auf dieselbe Vergänglichkeit, aus der sie kommt.

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

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone.

Hâtons-nous; le temps fuit et nous traîne avec soi: Le moment où je parle est déjà loin de moi.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

There is no more time, the gray cat is sleeping on the gutter morning noon and night.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.