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Quotes About Time

It might be just some trend that came and went, I said. But for us, it's our life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps they hadn't met for a long time. A long, long time. Perhaps when they last held each other like that, they were still young.' 'Do you mean, Manager, that they lost each other?' She was quiet for another moment. 'Yes,' she said, eventually. 'That must be it. They lost each other. And perhaps just now, just by chance, they found each other again.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Everything suddenly felt perfect: an hour set aside, stretching ahead of us, and there wasn't a better way to spend it. I had to really hold myself back from giggling stupidly, or jumping up and down on the pavement like a little kid.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It might be just some trend that came and went," I said. "But for us, it's our life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible eve, about the way we were now thinking and planning.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
nothing and yet everything had passed between us.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible even, about the way we were now thinking and planning.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Bir gün, belki de çok yak?nda, nas?l olduÄŸunu hissetmeye baÅŸlayacaks?n.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Belki de hiçbirimiz yaÅŸad?klar?m?z? tam olarak anlam?yor ve yeterli zaman?m?z kal?p kalmad???n? hissedemiyoruz.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
N-aÈ™ putea spune c? au fost ani nefericiÈ›i - am multe amintiri dragi din timpul lor, dar au fost mult mai serioÈ™i È™i, în anumite privinÈ›e, mai întunecaÈ›i. Poate c? în mintea mea toate au c?p?tat proporÈ›ii exagerate, dar am r?mas cu sentimentul c? în acel interval de timp lucrurile au început s? se schimbe extrem de rapid, aÈ™a cum ziua se târ??te în noapte.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Quizá habríamos sido felices si las cosas hubieran continuado de este modo durante más tiempo; si hubiéramos podido disfrutar de más tardes charlando, practicando sexo, leyendo en voz alta y dibujando.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Rimanemmo così, sulla sommità di quel campo, per quello che ci sembrò un tempo infinito, abbracciati senza dire una parola, mentre il vento non smetteva di soffiarci contro, e sembrava strapparci i vestiti di dosso; per un istante fu come se ci tenessimo stretti l'uno all'altra, perché quello era l'unico modo per non essere spazzati via nella notte.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge
~ Kazuo Ishiguro