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Quotes About Time

Spell?" The priest proudly raised his head. "I'm not a godless sorcerer! I don't cast spells! My power comes from faith and prayer!" "Can you or can't you?" "I can." "Then get on with it, because time's pressing on." "Geralt
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Time is fleeting moments, grains of sand passing through an hourglass. Time is the moments and events we so readily try to measure. But the ancient Ouroboros reminds us that in every moment, in every instant, in every event, is hidden the past, the present and the future. Eternity is hidden in every moment. Every departure is at once a return, every farewell is a greeting, every return is a parting. Everything is simultaneously a beginning and an end.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Quanto alla fretta, di solito l'impressione dell'inesorabile incalzare del tempo è un segnale d'allarme che impone di rallentare il ritmo e agire lentamente e con l'adeguata riflessione.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In the slanting light of late autumn, the gestures and bodies of people are more expressive the less meaning they have. Men stand on street corners staring at the emptiness of the day. They spit on the sidewalk and smoke cigarettes. That's the present. ...Time, approaching from afar, is like the air that someone else has already breathed.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
it gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Ciemno?? i czas - lekkie, niewidzialne substancje, które obna?aj? ludzk? krucho??. Umys? jest tylko p?omykiem zapa?ki na wietrze. Dusza ze strachu przed mrokiem wtula si? w cia?o, a ono swoje istnienie stwierdza dotykaj?c w?asnej skóry.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
To zabawne, ?e próbuj?c upora? si? z czasem, zazwyczaj wracamy do minionego, do tego, co ukszta?towane, do gotowej formy. Wyobra?nia nie potrafi niczego wymy?li?. Zawieszona w pró?ni spada jak kamie? albo zajmuje si? sob?, co koniec ko?ców wychodzi na jedno.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Widz? przesz?o?? wyra?niej ni? tera?niejszo??. Przecie? to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
S tim je tipovima isto tako, podsje?aju na zapo?eto i malkice nedovršeno. Kao da su se zaustavili i ?ekali na nastavak evolucije ili stvaranja, kao da su ?ekali što ?e se još dogoditi i živjeli u neprestanoj sadašnjosti, koja se stalno preobli?uje u prošlost.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Rewolucja to nie by? ?aden Marks naprawiaj?cy ?wiat, tylko skundlony Tamerlan w pogoni za drobiem i czasomierzami.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
To avoid regret, you do and say and express every good thing you can possibly do and say and express to those you love. 'Cause you're going to find there isn't always time to whisper good-bye.
~ Andy Andrews
Most people live under the misconception that it takes a long time to change. This is not true. It can take a long time to prepare to change or to decide to change or even to want to change. Change itself, however, happens in a heartbeat.
~ Andy Andrews
Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.
~ Andy Andrews
than thirty years that I haven't thought of Jones. More specifically, I don't believe a
~ Andy Andrews
To avoid regret, you do and say and express every good thing you can possibly do and say and express to those you love, 'cause you're going to find there isn't always time to whisper goodbye.
~ Andy Andrews
But I do believe that the more sand that has fallen from the hourglass of our lives, the clearer we should be able to see through it.
~ Andy Andrews
Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!
~ Andy Andrews
Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure...and they matter forever.
~ Andy Andrews