Quotes About Time

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.

Aunque él la amase con toda la fuerza de su mezquino ser, no la amaría tanto en ochenta años como yo en un día

En un sitio así yo sería capaz hasta de creer en un amor eterno, y eso que he creído siempre imposible que una pasión dure más de un año.

I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.

Si él la amase con toda la fuerza de su alma mezquina, no la amaría en ochenta años tanto como yo en un día.

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.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep ?without identity. and never care how rain may steep, ?or snow may cover me –

You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Meine Liebe zu Linton ist wie das Laub der Wälder. Sie unterliegt dem Wandel der Zeit, das weiß ich sehr wohl, so wie der Winter die Bäume verwandelt, doch meine Liebe zu Heathcliff gleicht dem Felsen darunter - sie ist ein Quell kaum wahrnehmbarer Freuden, aber ohne sie kann ich nicht sein.

he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as i could in a day. (heathcliff about edgar, ch. XIV, p. 148)

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

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Why dost thou hold the treasure fast, Of youth's delight, when youth is past, And thou art near thy prime?

You fight against that devil, for love, as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

Une personne qui n'a pas fait la moitié de son ouvrage de la journée à dix heures risque de laisser inachevée l'autre moitié.

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. 

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. 

Mi amor por Linton es cómo la maleza de los bosques: el tiempo lo cambiará, yo ya sé que el invierno muda los árboles. Mi amor por Heathcliff se parece a las eternas rocas profundas, es fuente de escaso placer visible, pero necesario.

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!

One or two is early enough for a person who lies till ten.

Você pode lutar, por amor, com esse diabo o tempo que quiser; quando a hora chegar, nem todos os santos do céu terão poder para salvá-lo!

The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, ' ''What, done already?'' 'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!