Quotes About Time

Jag undrade om det var så här gamla förälskelser dog. Att luften gick ur dem och sedan ... bara borta.

life. It all goes back to that one moment.

This is the time to just be young and celebrate and enjoy each other!" "Yes, within reason, of course.

Life is long if you let it be.

Maybe Anna needed to accept that mourning could be a slow process and that clock of grief ran at its own pace.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

My # 1 fear is the acceleration of days. No such thing supposedly, but I swear I can feel it.

The days with the baby felt long but there was nothing expansive about them. Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious. They cut the day up into little scraps.

Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here.

But you could, if you were wrong and if you had a crooked heart, forget this most obvious and endearing thing and instead speak of a time you were all alone, in the country, with no one wanting a thing from you, not even love. You could say that was your happiest time. And if you did this then telling about this happiest of times would cause the person you most want to be happy to be unhappy.

These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.

In America, the participating partner is likely to spend an average of 1,000 hours processing the incident with the hurt partner. This cannot be rushed.

If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.

We don't serve time travelers here. A time traveler walks into the bar.

And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.

There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, and X years in a life. Solve for X.

There is a story about a prisoner at Alcatraz who spent his nights in solitary confinement dropping a button on the floor then trying to find it again in the dark. Each night, in this manner, he passed the hours until dawn. I do not have a button. In all other respects, my nights are the same.

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.

The time that has gone with happiness does not come back with grief, and nothing the future may bring can wither a day or wipe out an hour in the life that has been lived.

Fiatalon az ember azt hiszi, örökké él.

Time's arrow is irreversible, because entropy cannot decrease of its own accord without violating the second law of thermodynamics. A reversible arrow would be like a movie run backward. The scenes in the movie are not impossible by the laws of classical mechanics, but they are patently absurd.

But here too there's a problem – the faster you go, the more time slows down. This is a scientific fact. I spend my life driving quickly, which is why I have a 1970s haircut.

We waste an enormous amount of time making decisions based entirely on this fanciful notion that we like alternatives.