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Quotes About Time

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What's more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote ?' I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know Kote ' 'Expect disaster every seven years,' he said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada
~ Patrick Rothfuss
How odd to watch a mortal kindle Then to dwindle day by day. Knowing their bright souls are tinder And the wind will have its way.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late...' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
sooner begun is sooner done
~ Patrick Rothfuss
As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
El dicho de que «el tiempo todo lo cura» es falso. El tiempo cura la mayoría de las heridas. El resto están escondidas detrás de esa puerta.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour. By now, a year and a half had passed and folk were almost mad with curiosity.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
La vida es demasiado corta para que os preocupéis por cosas sin importancia.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But you of all people should realize how thin the line between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story." Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in. "You know which will win, given time.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, holding the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Time is the great healer,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If I had my choice again, I would only change how fast I ran.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The saying "time heals all wounds" is false.
~ Patrick Rothfuss