Quotes About Time

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

Seeking love from another person is the biggest waste of your time.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.

Não há múmias, pedaços de tecido colados ao osso, medas de sal ou cadáveres que jamais estivessem nem metade dos mortos que estamos hoje.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. Lawrence Durrell in Clea, book three of the epic Alexandria Quartet - which I am reading for the third time since my early 20s...relishing its superb prose and enigmatic insights into the nature of love.

Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

Esos momentos son los que colman al escritor, no al enamorado, y perduran para siempre. Podemos evocarlos cuantas veces queramos o utilizarlos como fundamento para construir esa parte de la vida que es la tarea de escribir.

Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.

I return, link by link, along the iron chains of memory.

I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious.

with its head under its wing. I was so sorry, yet so glad. 'For us, the living, the problem is of a totally different order: how to harness time in the cultivation of a style of heart — something like that?

Cheer up, me boyo, it takes a lifetime to grow. People haven't the patience any more.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

I was born when you kissed me.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!