Quotes About Time

In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control

The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.

Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.

Petty crimes don't have to have long sentences. Come on, man, you know damned well that I got more time than most. Most of the cons in there are way long on their time. State prison, I would have done a month or two. Private prison, they need to find a way to keep you. It's a business, Detective. Ain't nothin' to do with corrections. You already figured all this out.

When you lose you lose forever, an when you win it only lasts a second or two.

Time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

Then the higher self operates from the future, as we understand things. In other words, my higher self would operate from what I consider to be my future? Is this correct? Ra I am Ra. From the standpoint of your space/time, this is correct.

The advantage of time/space is that of the fluidity of the grand overview. The advantage of space/time is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.

it wont be long now it wont be longtill earth is barren as the moonand sapless as a mumbled bone

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble