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Quotes About Time

Un tren que parte es la cosa del mundo más semejante a un libro que se acaba. Cuando los trenes vuelvan, abríos páginas nuevas.
~ Unknown
Aki él, nem rejtÅ'zhet el. Szép lassan minden megtörténik az emberrel. Zsugorodik a zsugori idÅ'.
~ Peter Esterhazy
Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.
~ P.C. Cast
He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.
~ Unknown
No matter how wonderful "The Other Side" seems, you cannot stay if it is not your time.
~ Unknown
It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.
~ Unknown
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
~ Unknown
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
~ Pablo Casals
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again
~ Pablo Casals
I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
~ Pablo Neruda
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
~ Pablo Neruda
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~ Pablo Picasso
It takes a very long time to become young.
~ Pablo Picasso
Era una relación pecaminosa. Pinche ángel caído. Era un pecado: acostarse con el pasado. Los que cogen con el pasado mueren, envejecen. Se enamoran de los ayeres y se quedan ahí para siempre, tiesos, congelados, sin poder volver.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Yeah. That's what happened. We sat around, nobody talked. I don't understand marriage, Charlie. What are you supposed to do with your wife? I mean, most of the time. CHARLIE (Thinking) Most of the time, Arnold, you don't even see each other. You're away working. You come home, and you eat. Then one of you washes the dishes. Then, if you're not tired, you can go to the movies or visit somebody. Or you watch Tee Vee.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
~ Padma Lakshmi
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Teddy taught me about kindness, about love that is unconditional; a sentiment not dependent on acceptance, approval, or the expectation of something in return. It was the first time I would ever feel this from a man who wasn't my grandfather. And I didn't know what to do with it at all. If only I'd embraced our differences sooner. I didn't know it then, but we had so little time left.
~ Padma Lakshmi