Quotes About Time

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

Everyone in this room got here somehow and everyone in this room will have to leave.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

But the minutes don't stop. The prayer of going nowhere going nowhere.

Looking back is easy for a while and then looking back gets murky.

His shoulder blots out the stars but the minutes don't stop. He covers my body with his body but the minutes don't stop.

Things happen all the time, things happen every minute that have nothing to do with us.

History throws its shadow over the beginning

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.

The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of "simpler times.

The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

With the dozens of prisoners I spoke to and got to know, one of the only things, perhaps the only thing they missed about prison was that intimate, daily, powerful connection to prisoner number 46664. I missed it too. But I knew also,as those men knew, that it could not be restored, that it was born of a certain time and place.

After nineteen years, he still needed explanations from me. If being willing to speak at length into an unresponsive void isn't one of the cornerstones of a rich relationship and enduring love, what is?

Document automation can therefore be used within legal businesses or made available online, and is disruptive for lawyers who charge for their time, because it enables documents to be generated in minutes whereas, in the past, they would have taken many hours to craft.

La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. - Yukio Mishima

is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

It is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

Richard Turner

Hadza men were close to the average, spending more than 4 hours a day hunting—about eighty times as long as an Ngogo chimpanzee.

We become eternal by being held in memory's loving arms.

It seems to me sometimes that seasons leave us in the way people do, never just gone, but degree by degree, fading like the smell on a loved one's favourite sweater, until the vanishing one day evolves into memory.

They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are." Fred said. "But our healing—that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game." "Could be a long game," I said. "So what if it is?" he said. "Just keep your stick on the ice and your feet moving. Time will take care of itself.

I understood then how hard years are to get a hold of, how elusive the life in them can be to capture and retell. I understood then too that time does not heal all wounds. I wanted to say it all in one brilliantly executed sentence, encompass all of it in a succinct, effortless rush. But I couldn't. I was at a loss where to begin.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space