Quotes About Time

When I left my village, it was like I took a step with my right foot and, by the time my left foot came to join it, four years had passed.

The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: "Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life.

Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time

Estas mañanas se repetían cada semana, pero yo no me rendía y seguía quedándome en la cama los domingos. Quería ganar aunque solo fuera un minuto más de sueño. «Un poquito más. Ya casi me he deshecho del cansancio»,

If spring never comes, does that mean summer won't either? How will the crops grow when the fields are covered with snow?

I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up.

Any kind of uncertainty caused him pain, so we were determined to hide the time that had passed and the memories he'd lost.

The waves of regret were gentle, but I know they would ripple on forever

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.

Are you eating?" I asked. "You have to keep up your strength." "All of a sudden you're grown and worrying about me, instead of the other way around. Seems like yesterday you were just a little boy.

Memories don't just pile up—they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord. Though the process, for me, is quite different from what happens to the rest of you when something disappears from the island.

The sound of time flowing between us became the sound of the water trickling quietly from the faucet until dawn.

Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head, as if trying to grab hold of something, to the instant he vanishes into the water. But I can never find the right words. Perhaps it's because he's falling through time, to a place where words can never reach.

in reserve for the most important thing: the present.

Memories don't just pile up - they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord.

No one actually witnessed the first numbers come into being-when we first became aware of them, they'd already been around for a long time.

It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body I had felt when I'd gone searching for my hidden presents had been sturdier; and though I had always thought of him as tall, e was now much shorter than me. I realized I had no idea how old he was -- I suppose I'd thought that something as mundane as age could never apply to him.

Out in the open air, he seemed somehow older.

The rays of the setting sun stretched far into the room. Root traced the circles around the twin primes as the steam from the rice cooker floated in from the kitchen. The Professor stared through the window as if he were looking out at the desert, though all he could really see was his tiny, neglected garden.

Memories do not change the law.

Y el tiempo no obedece a órdenes