Quotes About Time

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.Logic is logic. That's all I say.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

no pasa media hora sin que me nazca una nueva personalidad.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Non rimpiangete mai una foto che non avete potuto fare: la vita scorre di continuo.

La fotografia è una lezione d'impermanenza.

Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultn after Sultn with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.

After the passage of a given length of time, the jikijitsu again rings his bell once and claps his clappers twice. Then comes a short break of about ten minutes. Sometimes during this break kinhin (meditative walking) takes place in the meditation hall.

Further, you should see whether or not self and other—that is, self and strangers, self and family, self and society—are unified in the place called "here." In this place Self and object fuse and become one body in an experience known in Zen as "the boundless realm of time and space where not even the width of a hair separates self and other.

The flowers withered,Their color faded away,While meaninglesslyI spent my days in the worldAnd the long rains were falling.

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This pine tree by the rock Must have its memories too: After a thousand years, See how its branches Lean towards the ground.