Quotes About Time

You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

The odd thing about understanding was how often time alone seemed seemed to bring it about.

Separar os vivos dos mortos. Separar a fantasia da realidade é coisa que não me interessa muito. Além disso, meus sonhos são fruto desse tempo. Mas o vivo e o morto!

We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

It passes, but it does not pass away.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

White teas required only one to two minutes, and black teas between two and three minutes, while herbal teas could steep for three to six minutes.

that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you. Something that is worth preserving...

It's a terrible thing to know everything about someone long after you want to.

But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they have.

Beauty won't protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can't plan for. The one thing you can't save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.

Time to leave the party; Time to reach for me; Time to give me room to breathe.

In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

The moment where everything becomes unstuck: the world around you suddenly moving both slower and quicker, until you are completely and totally present in it. Your everything.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. —Oscar Wilde

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evidence of the time that has passed, of the things that have happened.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain, is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. You follow me?

She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.

think, or I used to think at least, that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you," I said. "Something that is worth preserving . . ." He

I think, or I used to think at least, that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you," I said. "Something that is worth preserving