Quotes About Time

This moment itself is all we ever live in.

Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.

you feel will also change—both in your body and in how you understand it as a meaning. Say the order of your time feels unjust and unsustainable and yet massively entrenched, but also falling apart before your eyes. The obvious contradictions in this list might yet still describe the feeling of your time quite accurately, if we are not mistaken.

With practice one could dodge the past almost entirely.

Kim Stanley Robinson

NOTE: Islamic and Chinese calendars are lunar. Christian and Buddhist calendars are solar.

Events would soon be washing by her, the way they did everyone else; history was a wave that moved through time slightly faster than an individual life did, so that even when people had lived only to seventy or eighty, they had been behind the wave by the time they died; and how much more so now.

Of course I am old now, but there is no changing that, except by death. At least I have this day, and these days.

Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now

And there are things about the Swiss you have to admire. They are so punktlich, so punctual— this is funny at first, but what is it but a regard for the other person? You are saying to the other person, your time is as valuable as mine, so I will not waste yours by being late. Let us agree we are all equally important and so everyone has to be on time, in order to respect each other.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

It's the structure of feeling in our time; we can't think in anything but economic terms, our ethics must be quantified and rated for the effects that our actions have on GDP. This is said to be the only thing people can agree on. Although those who say this are often economists.

Perhaps periodization makes it easier to remember that no matter how massively entrenched the order of things seems in your time, there is no chance at all that they are going to be the same as they are now after a century has passed, or even ten years.

we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don't charge ourselves for it, and the standard approach has been that future generations will be richer and stronger than us, and they'll find solutions to their problems. But by the time they get here, these problems will have become too big to solve. That's the tragedy of the time horizon

I was old the day I was born and I'll be young the day I die.

All things remain in God. Even if there was no God. All things remain in something or other. Some kind of eternity outside time.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don't you?

She often felt a nostalgia for the present, aware that her life was passing by faster than she could properly take it in. She lived it, she felt it; she had given nothing to age, she still wanted everything; but she could not make it whole or coherent.

La consciencia se entiende tan poco que ni siquiera puede definirse de manera apropiada. El yo es algo escurridizo, buscado con denuedo, aferrado con fuerza, quizá con algo de miedo, una especie de desesperado abrazo al primer atisbo de consciencia, consciencia incluso de las impresiones sensoriales, para que uno pueda tener algo a lo que aferrarse. Para detener el tiempo. Para contener a la muerte. Esta es la fuente del fuerte sentido del yo. Quizá.

her with a whole lot more than that, and the beautiful son or daughter they would have would experience a much better childhood than she had—a son or daughter Serena would need to have very soon, because her biological clock was now ticking pretty loudly.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake's vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children's art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.

God hoeft ons niet te straffen. Hij geeft ons gewoon genoeg tijd van leven om het zelf te doen. pag. 341