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Quotes About Time

I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.
~ Deborah Levy
As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.
~ Deborah Levy
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.
~ Deborah Levy
This was the rearranged space of yesterday.
~ Deborah Levy
Time has shattered, it's cracked like my lips.
~ Deborah Levy
You are history
~ Deborah Levy
To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write.
~ Deborah Levy
Time has shattered, it's cracking like my lips.
~ Deborah Levy
I am upset today, Lapinski, because my friend is dying... I spread my loneliness out like a fan in front of you. He is my comrade, Lapinski. Holding on to the hands of the clock with his fingertips. For me. We hang on for each other.
~ Deborah Levy
To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life.
~ Deborah Levy
Mas talvez prazeres tardios sejam ainda mais doces por conta da espera.
~ Deborah McKinlay
Even when I succeed in getting there we only have an hour. At ten o'clock the night-watch trumpet sounds and those who are out return to bed. What a blameless, hardworking nation we are. In bed by ten, faithful husbands and faithful wives. It is no city for lovers, for those out late on the street are viewed with suspicion.
~ Deborah Moggach
Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun.
~ Deborah Rodriguez
La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.
~ Deborah Smith
IT'S 1996; MY father is eighty-eight. I arrive for a visit at their Westchester condo. My mother greets me at the door. After we've hugged and kissed, my father appears at the end of the hallway. It's taken him longer to rise from his chair. He isn't carrying the cane he finally agreed to use after his last fall. He stumbles, but the wall catches him. Something inside me rebels: who stole my father and put this old man in his place?
~ Deborah Tannen
matter of time before you marry, so do it." Grace screamed with delight and jumped off Alexandra's lap. Running to Dallas, she threw up her arms, crying, "Auntie!
~ Debra Clopton
So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here
~ Debra Cox
Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments
~ Debra Dean
is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments. Her distant past is preserved, better than preserved. Moments that occurred in Leningrad sixty-some years
~ Debra Dean
Trecutul s?rut? viitorul
~ Debra Finerman
Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern
~ Debra Finerman
She didn't have a quick comeback, not that he gave her time to answer. His lips carried a hint of cinnamon from the tea. His tongue acted like an old friend back for a long conversation. He kissed like a master, taking his time and giving her his complete focus. No wonder he was called a genius.
~ Debra Salonen
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
~ Debra Winger
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
~ Debra Winger