Quotes About Time

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

Of course, after nearly a quarter of a century, the questions about our distant pasts have all been posed and we're left with 'how was your day?' and 'when will you be home?' and 'have you put the bins out?' Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

it's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together. Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today. I'll always remember it

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

Where can we live but days?

but I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los días

before two a.m.

There was a time when he used alcohol as a stimulant, something to lift his spirits and give him energy, but now he drinks like all parents drink, as a kind of early evening sedative.