Quotes About Time

Time is not a ladder one ascends into the future but a ladder one descends into the past

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I'm not about turning back the clock or promising some magic elixir of youth. It's an acknowledgment of the fact that as we age our skin has different needs.

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

Ek Lamhen Me Simat Aaya Sadiyon Ka Safar...... Zindagi Tej Bahut Tej Chali Ho Jaise...

Jagte Jagte Ik Umra Kati Ho Jaise..

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Everybody's young to me, Hazel Marie," I said, feeling every year of my age.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.

When we came in she had her chair sideways, without even looking up to know that it was us, that the doctors had said that sitting and staring at the snow was a waste of time; she should get involved in something. She laughed and told us it wasn't a waste of time. It would be a waste of time just to stare at snowflakes, but she was counting, and even that might be a waste of time, but she was only counting the ones that were just alike

Things wither and die before us so that we may better savor that we live.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

didn't have time for small talk.

She decided it was time to get out of the water. If she stayed any longer, she'd go wrinkled and prune-like. Even worse, she might fall asleep and wake up only when it was cold.

This is urgent. Please make sure Miss Willmore gets it immediately, wherever she is.' She looked at her watch, then she made one more call and drove north.

He was a crazy Time Lord trying to turn back the clock, to save this woman when he'd failed to save the other.

almost as much as she did. They loved the drama of it, the frisson of fear, the exhilaration of still being alive. People had been putting together stories of death and the motives for killing since the beginning of time, to thrill and to entertain