Quotes About Time

You will not be nineteen always

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the

Pensé que todas las generaciones se pierden por algo y siempre se han perdido y siempre se perderán.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?

I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.

Then that the afternoon should come; that it should come flying.

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

Maybe I have had all my life in three days, he thought. If that's true I wish we would have spent the last night differently. But last nights are never any good. Last nothings are any good.

Por qué madrugaremos tanto los viejos? ¿Será para alargar el día?

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), he thought and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it.

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.

He worried about everyone and in the time when I first knew him he was most worried about T. S. Eliot who, Ezra told me, had to work in a bank in London and so had insufficient time and bad hours to function as a poet.

Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.

Le mille volte che già lo aveva dimostrato non avevano importanza. Ora lo stava dimostrando di nuovo. Ogni volta era una volta nuova, e non pensava mai al passato, quando lo faceva.

Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

Ahora: una palabra curiosa para expresar todo un mundo y toda una vida

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

mér fanst þær fyrirgefa okkur þó við værum ásfángin og gift - það mundi altsaman lagast með tímanum

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

I spoke to the Old Man a couple of times, but I'm sure He didn't hear a word I said. He had quit listening to man a million years ago. Now all He does is play chess by Himself or sit around playing solitary with old cards.

Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

The past is preserved only in darkness, the future is not raised to the level of an image, as something which can be anticipated. It is the symbolic expression which first creates the possibility of looking backward and looking forward... What occurred in the past, now separated out from the totality of representations, no longer passes away, once the sounds of language have placed their seals on it and given it a certain stamp.