Quotes About Time

To Ovid (F, 1, 149 ff.), surprised that time does not recommence in spring, Janus replies that 'the winter solstice is the first day of the new sun and the last of the old' (ibid., 163).

some time. Been prayin' for 'im, though. You

The time had come, the people should know the son of Hastur, and the whole world bow to the black stars which hang in the sky over Carcosa.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift. —Becker's Health IT & CIO Review magazine, October 11, 2013

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

Some people said our clothes looked like the 1950s; others believed the 1940s were our era. I wasn't sure. All I knew was that my clothes didn't go out of style because they'd never been in style in the first place.

What next?" Pete asked. "It's up to you," the doctor replied. "If you're sure you want to go forward, there are more tests and the doctors taking care of Mr. Hightower need to be informed." "I'm sure. I've had plenty of time to think about

[Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad a gravity; a man for all seasons.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. –Victor Hugo T

When I understood this much about the People, I realized how truly different their reality was. My reality is made in my head; I create roles for myself, I create a structure that requires certain activities and prohibits others. I live in time; I have an agenda. Their existence had no reality until they lived it.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

thumbs. With every minute

Llegará un día en el que alguien pronunciará por última vez nuestro nombre en el mundo. Es el instante de la muerte definitiva.

El olvido es el hijo consentido de la historia y el alero bajo el cual palpita la convivencia.

El tiempo transcurría con lentitud, y mi conciencia descentrada de extrañeza y fatiga recogía en el espacio el silencioso dolor de la especie.

Y aunque no había transcurrido, yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy vaciloso. Pensé: Ahora que todo ha cambiado, ¿quién soy yo dentro del amplio uniforme?

Yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy caviloso.

cuestión de tiempo y audacia, pero cuando se den cuenta que el espíritu se les hunde en la letrina de esta civilización, antes de ahogarse van a torcer el camino. Lo que hay es que el hombre no ha reparado que está enfermo de cobardía y de cristianismo.

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.