Quotes About Time

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.

You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

If you wait, all that happens is you get older.

Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

All his work, and it hadn't saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Larry McMurtry

It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice you were into an argument and they were telling you what was going to happen.

We got all day to break horses.

My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that in time the feeling would pass, and best so: he would stop thinking about Maggie, she would stop thinking about him... But it didn't pass--all that passed were years.

Ain't this been a hell of a time?

GREAT SKY WOMAN  and SHADOW VALLEY, adventures set 30,000 years

as old as seas and mountains. . . .

One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor. - Sean O'Casey, The Plow and the Stars

Then why don't you marry him? Sally laughed. I don't want to jump into anything. 'Marry in haste, repent at leisure.' I can get married any time. Her trained objectivity made her add, Well, any time within the next five years. I'll be something of a spinster if I'm not married by then.

Nothing lasts. You can't do any one thing for two hundred years. A marriage, a career, a hobby—they're good for twenty years, and maybe you go through a phase more than once. I did some experimental medicine. I wrote a big chunk of that documentary on the Trinoc culture that won a—

Life is a precious gift, it's all we have, and it is always happening in the present.

Un año desperdiciado es un año perdido para siempre que nunca se recupera.

Taking a lifetime to grow up.