Quotes About Time

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

How long must we wait for the lilies to bud?

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

Lorsque l'avenir est sans espoir, le présent prend une amertume ignoble

Life in the silent, secluded little mansion in Passy was as smooth and regular as the gentle ticking of its antiquated clocks. (89)

il n'envisageait que les biens célestes, ne pouvant comprendre qu'on mît en balance une éternité de félicité avec quelques heures d'une joie périssable.

She had the parchment skin and changeless features peculiar to old maids whom no one ever knew in their younger years.

The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings." the walrus and the carpenter The Proem: by the Carpenter [taken from "Money Maze," Ainslee's, May 1901] They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast

Todo se acaba y nada vuelve a empezar en la vida

Justice!…The time has come! Justice!

Hay entre nosotros, dos minutos después, algún vínculo que no existía dos minutos antes?

amounts some years

Moja mi?o?? do Lintona jest jak li?cie w lesie. Wiem dobrze, ?e czas j? zmieni, tak jak zima zmienia wygl?d lasu.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes trees. My love for Heatcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!

Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees — my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being — so, don't talk of our separation again — it is impracticable.-

Nu ÅŸtiu din ce sunt pl?m?dite sufletele noastre, dar ÅŸtiu c? al lui ÅŸi al meu sunt la fel. (...) Iubirea mea pentru Linton seam?n? cu frunzele p?durii, timpul o va schimba, îmi dau bine seama, aÅŸa cum iarna schimb? pomii. Iubirea mea pentru Heathcliff îns? e asemeni stâncilor eterne de sub p?mânt: nu prilej de încântare, ci necesitate.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees — my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being — so, don't talk of our separation again — it is impracticable.

You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Si él la amaba con toda la fuerza de su alma mezquina, no podría nunca, ni aunque viviera ochenta años, amarla tanto como yo en un solo día