Quotes About Time

The priceless artifacts that passed through her hands amazed her. The beauty, the craftsmanship, the history – she sighed. If only she could spend more time alone with the treasures and less time with the pretentious buyers.

You cant hurry love. I guess you cant hurry divorce either! Neither should be treated lightly.

An Elegy A thousand times must we deplore The lost will never come to life again; Even as flowing water runs away, Returning nevermore. Lady Kanin

Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Mensen moeten niet trouwen,' zei Panda. 'Kind, praat geen onzin,' zei Jens. 'Mensen moeten zoveel mogelijk trouwen. Het leven is maar kort, al lijkt het je nu misschien lang, en het is de enige manier om in ieder geval een paar mensen goed gekend te hebben, voor het grondwater je bloed wegspoelt en de wormen je hart leegvreten. En het is de enige manier om jezelf te leren kennen. dat heeft natuurlijk z'n nadelen.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

The roses of old time have filled the well. Is it there that you have been hiding, my sweet love?

C'est le passé. L'avenir sombre dans le passé dès qu'il a cessé d'être futur. Le présent n'existe pas. Vouloir l'éterniser, c'était éterniser le néant. C'est ce que j'ai fait !

Pour les gens qui vous entourent, vous n'êtes jamais là, toujours en retard ou en avance d'une seconde sur leur temps.

I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion.

Il craint de s'évanouir, de ne pas reprendre connaissance, de rester à jamais errant dans l'air bleu, fantôme dérisoire en suspens au-dessus des siècles, jusqu'à ce que l'appareil, détraqué, laisse un jour tomber ses cendres, en bouffées légères, sur une civilisation nouvelle.

I will even be able to free it from the power of gravity which attracts it to the future and to make it go back into the past.

Elle se disait qu'il était peut-être là, séparé d'elle par un rien de temps, par un millième de seconde, plus infranchissable qu'un mur de forteresse.

Pour agir, Saint-Menoux va cesser pendant quelques secondes de se tenir hors du temps.

Nous sommes les occupants de cet espace et de ce temps. Nous sommes les ouvriers, manÅ"uvres, ingénieurs, d'une usine sans porte.

Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such large volumes, it would take longer to read those books than we have to live in this life and more effort to select the useful things than to find them oneself

On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.

Eternity is not much longer than life.

A few beings are neither in society nor in a state of dreaming. They belong to an isolated fate, to an unknown hope. Their open acts seem anterior to time's first inculpation and to the skies' unconcern. It occurs to no one to employ them. The future melts before their gaze. They are the noblest and the most disquieting.

Entre les deux coups de feu qui décidèrent de son destin, il eut le temps d'appeler une mouche : Madame.

Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.

The destructive action of time only allows what is superior to time to survive.