Quotes About Time

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

The student should master the entire work in not more than two hours.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. 'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall.

Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.

The key to the Jewish calendar is Nature.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Totul este bun, dar nu pretutindeni, dar nu oricând, dar nu pentru to?i.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.