Quotes About Time

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Patience is a byproduct of growth - we can bide our time when it is the time of our growth. There is no patience in acquisition or in the pursuit of power and fame. Nothing is so impatient as the pursuit of a substitute for growth.

History does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.

En resumen, y contra lo que pudiera parecer, el siglo XX mostró que se puede gobernar contra todo el pueblo por algún tiempo, y contra una parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no contra todo el pueblo todo el tiempo

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

love is an investment!

Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman.

A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years.

Early is on time, on time is late, and late is uacceptable.

I am a man stimulated by intelligence, jazz, lattes, and warm conversations. But intellect is the key. Intelligence rises as beauty fades, time giving the former wings to soar while it whittles away at the latter.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.

Is life much too long for an immortal?

You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.

If some things could change, so could other things. What right had I to predict the future and predict it so nihilistically? As I got older I would probably change in hundreds of ways I couldn't foresee. All I had to do was wait it out.

My black hair, which used to glisten like wet violets on an ebony altar, is now a steely gray

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Nous avions le temps. Lui, parce qu'il était vieux, moi parce que j'étais jeune. [We had time. Him, because he was old, me because I was young.]

Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.

Ho cercato di spiegare ai miei genitori che la vita è uno strano regalo. All'inizio lo si sopravvaluta, questo regalo: si crede di aver ricevuto la vita eterna. Dopo lo si sottovaluta, lo si trova scadente, troppo corto, si sarebbe quasi pronti a gettarlo. Infine ci si rende conto che non era un regalo, ma solo un prestito. Allora si cerca di meritarlo.