Quotes About Time

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.

That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--' 'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!' '--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' 'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

Pues la regla es: mermelada mañana y mermelada ayer... pero nunca mermelada hoy.

Why couldn't you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago, You prince of all the asses?

No tiene utilidad volver ayer , porque entonces era una persona distinta

The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.

Si conocieras el tiempo tan bien como yo m no hablarías de matarlo. El tiempo es todo un personaje

Si conocieras al Tiempo como yo —dijo el Sombrerero—, no hablarías de emplearlo o perderlo. Él es muy suyo.

The poet replied: "I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.

Quero dizer que uma pessoa não pode evitar ficar mais velha' 'Uma não pode, talvez', disse Humpty Dumpty, 'mas duas podem. Com a devida assistência, talvez, você teria podido parar em sete'.

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the

the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET

It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

If You Hurry You'll Miss the Miracles

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

When my love comes back from the ladies' room, will I be too old to care?

Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created. We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.

waiting is our destiny. as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for; we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. we wait in fear for a happy ending that we cannot write. we wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

Das Firmament blaut ewig und die Erde Wird lange fest stehen und aufblühn im Lenz. Du aber, Mensch, wie lange lebst denn du?