Quotes About Time

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

El futuro es un vacío indiferente que no le interesa a nadie, mientras que el pasado está lleno de vida y su rostro nos excita, nos irrita, nos ofende y por eso queremos destruirlo o retocarlo. Los hombres quieren ser dueños del futuro sólo para poder cambiar el pasado.

Ljudi izvikuju kako žele da stvore lepšu budu?nost, ali to nije istina. Budu?nost je praznina prema kojoj su svi ravnodušni, koja nikoga ne zanima, dok je prošlost puna života i njeno lice nas izaziva, ljuti, vre?a tako da ga želimo uništiti ili premazati bojom. Ljudi žele da budu gospodari budu?nosti samo zato, da mogu da menjaju prošlost.

Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something difficult) or rebelled at its slowness (when she was awaiting something fine).

And so Ilúvatar, after the pattern of the biblical Jehovah, produces a drama performed in the theater of time.

in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

Each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.

For minutes on end he could not tell whether he was really hearing howls of pain, or whether it was simply that his years of long, exhausting work had rendered him incapable of distinguishing between the general noise and ancient prehistoric screams that were somehow preserved in time ('the evidence of suffering does not disappear without a trace,' he hopefully remarked) and now were being raised by the rain, like dust.

What is behind me still remains ahead of me.

Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

I suppose I must start my brains working, replied his Majesty the Scarecrow; for experience has, taught me that I can do anything if I but take time to think it out.

It was a terrible thing to do undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.

I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the morn-ing.' 'That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning.

La experiencia es lo único que nos procura conocimiento, y en cuanto mas tiempo sobre la tierra más experiencia tendrás

Tiktok in her pocket, so it would not get lost again.

No, replied the soldier. for my gun isn't loaded. Not loaded? No; for fear of accidents. And I've forgotten where I hid the powder and shot to load it with. But if you'll wait a short time I'll try to hunt them up.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason...when we waste time, we waste happiness.

I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet, scoffed Marilla. You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you'll never be alone.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.