Quotes About Time

My mother who died young In an outlandish rhythm Would have been seventy now And perhaps dead in funeral time. So I may start to mourn As I would celebrate The first or second birthday Of a still-born baby. - Out of Season

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Jones is dead," I promised. "He just doesn't know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

Might not be able to save you, old son," Adam said, lying back again and closing his eyes. "But I can buy us a little time to kick you in the butt hard enough you stop thinking about 'tomorrow and tomorrow' and start thinking about how much but hurts.

I'd like to do something that means more, something that will outlast me the way these buildings have outlasted the men who built them." "I hadn't thought of it that way before," said Willon slowly. "But immortality . . . I think that's a basic instinct rather than the product of pride.

All things die, Mercy. Some just takes longer than others. (Charles)

but his instincts were instilled a long time ago. You are going to have to help him with that and be patient with him.

Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they'd better be dying.

It hasn't been out in a good long time," said Zee. "It's a little giddy." "Giddy," I said.

Did the mean old werewolf stick the poor kitty in the box and leave her?" I asked. She smelled like my neighbor, which told me that Adam had spent some time with her on his lap before he'd brought her over here.

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

Some people are boys longer than others.

She said that time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than they are is love.

Just a minute," I said. I bent over and picked it up in my right hand . . . When I woke up, Shiara was dripping water on my face.

There is no necessity to live by the clock.

More problems solve themselves if only you can content yourself in patience and wait.

The old woman sang of a time gone ahead, and of those already walking ahead of her on the pathway. Her eyes were reddened as though they bled. And her songs, like the pathways, were interweavings of times and places and of all that breathed between earth and sky.

I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.