Quotes About Time

A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais

We try so hard to put our mark on things, we like to tell ourselves that what we do has import or will last. But the truth is, we're all just passing through. So little survives us. And when we're gone, it's simply the memory of others that keeps our time here alive. And when they're gone... That's why - when I go - I'm asking that my dust gets tossed on the water. Because ends up floating away.

But when you are engulfed in loss, how can you detach yourself in the transience of everything? How can I take a theoretically long view of things when every waking moment without Johannes is agony?

How soon "not now" becomes "never".

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.

hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time

Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you. And when they too vanish...

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

For the time being the 'gay gene' remains elusive. Which is not to say that it won't be found at some point.

At the heart of which attitude lies the strange retributive instinct of our time towards the past which suggests that we know ourselves to be better than people in history because we know how they behaved and we know that we would have behaved better. There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here.

Water is life. It is one of the earth's greatest resources. History is well documented on the ways of water. Wars have been fought over it, societies have risen up, societies have been removed, all throughout the annals of time.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

voicepipe. And it was about midnight, a warning in itself.

Devane saw Dundas hurrying to meet them and said dryly, 'Thanks Ralph. How can Barker have served in 1919 in a destroyer, and have lost a son in North Africa, and still look so young?' Beresford smiled. 'Will power and hair dye. Never fails.

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.

We're all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.

And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.

Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time. The