Quotes About Time

Come la vita, la letteratura è vissuta in avanti e compresa a ritroso.

Time takes life away and gives us memory...

Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.

Con qué tranquilidad avanzamos a través de días y meses, y cantamos en voz baja una negra canción de cuna, cuán fácil los lobos secuestran a nuestros hermanos con qué levedad respira la muerte

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Is neamhbhuan cogadh na gcarad; má bhíonn sé crua, ní bhíonn sé fada

It was well before sunrise. But all you had to do was wait. Patience was a weapon. If you waited long enough, the dawn would come.

It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.

Take nothing and no one for granted. Time used to be my friend, and now it's a skittish acquaintance at best. Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can't always think about what you've lost, or what you don't have, or what you didn't get. Because when you do that, you're missing out on the now. You can't know if you'll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

Nobody ever told me that motherhood was temporary. You think you have years and years with them, but the truth is, you don't.

Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted

And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, hell spend his time more wisely.

this is the difference between you native Italians and those of us called Italian Americans. You live a balanced life. You work, you eat, you rest. We don't. We can't. We live as though we have something to prove. There's never enough time, we eat on the run, and we sleep as little as possible. We believe the one who works the hardest wins." The

The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked

She learned that time could not be the measurement for the things that lasted. Sometimes what endured was that which changed us in a matter of moments, not years.

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

first impression is often just that, a quick snapshot that on its own merit is meaningless. After a vacation, in time, it gets lost in a shoe box full of them.

Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time.

He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.

When Matelda was young, she chased time to get what she wanted. Now she chased time to hold on to it.

You cannot buy time when it has been stolen from you.

The illusion of time lying, he knew, was to make people think life could have more in it than it actually could. Actually, time flying could make human lives seem victorious over time itself. Time flew so fast in ways it failed to make an impact. People's lives ell between its stabbing powers like insects between raindrops. We cheat the power of time with our very brevity! he said aloud to Bekka, feeling confident she would understand, but she only just kept petting the cats.