Quotes About Time

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

In contrast, I argue that their violence, seen in broad historical context, was no worse than that of others in a savage time, when heroes like Charlemagne (d. 814) killed and plundered on a much greater scale than the northern raiders.

for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

The image - its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism - has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist

time, a reconstruction of the event according to an artificial and abstract duration: dramatic duration. There is not a single one of these commonly accepted assumptions of the film spectacle that is not challenged by neorealism.

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…

It's a squad of trees that will eventually make a forest, it's a squad of stars that will eventually make one less day, it's a squad of one­-less-­days that will eventually make up my life.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

I see beauty as I have seen you. As I have seen what, at the given hour and for a given time which I hope and with all my soul believe may recur, granted you to me. Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.

I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.

Quer dizer que a morte não nos tomará nada (já que só nos tomará o futuro que não é), que o tempo não nos toma nada (já que o presente é tudo), enfim que é absurdo esperar a eternidade - pois já estamos nela. ''Se entendermos eternidade não como uma duração infinita mas como atemporalidade,'' dizia por sua vez Wittgenstein, ''então tem a vida eterna quem vive no presente.

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that is is too late and the game finished, and the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has not time to form.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Lo que mas separa a las personas es, sin duda, que unos vivan en el pasado y otros en el presente.

Even our strongest emotions die, don't you think? And we can look back to the woman we were three years ago with the same curiosity and detachment as if it were someone else.