Quotes About Time

Drink up, boys, drink up and don't worry, if we finish this bottle we'll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won't be the same as the one we've got now, but it'll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don't make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don't you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.

My gift to you will be an abyss, she said, but it will be so subtle you'll perceive it only after many years have passed and you are far from Mexico and me. You'll find it when you need it most, and that won't be the happy ending, but it will be an instant of emptiness and joy. And maybe then you'll remember me, if only just a little.

Qué lástima que pase el tiempo ¿verdad?, qué lástima que nos muramos y que nos hagamos viejos y que las cosas buenas se vayan alejando de nosotros al galope.

And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.

Nothing is ever behind us.

He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.

Today I realized that what I wrote yesterday I really wrote today: everything from December 31 I wrote on January 1, i.e. today, and what I wrote on December 30 I wrote on the 31st, i.e. yesterday. What I write today I'm really writing tomorrow, which for me will be today and yesterday, and also, in some sense, tomorrow: an invisible day. But enough of that.

For a while we talked about things I've forgotten now. Or maybe we were silent for a while, me sitting at the foot of his bed, him stretched out with his book, the two of us sneaking looks at each other, listening to the sound the elevator made, as if we were in a dark room or lost in the country at night, just listening to the sound of horses.

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.

Todos estamos acostumbrados a morirnos cada cierto tiempo y tan poco a poco que la verdad es que cada día estamos más vivos. Infinitamente viejos e infinitamente vivos.

God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.

la relatividad de nuestra memoria que magnifica o empequeñece a discreción, un lenguaje que creemos conocer y que en verdad no conocemos.

Hoy me di cuenta de que lo que escribí ayer en realidad lo escribí hoy: todo lo del treintaiuno de diciembre lo escribí el uno de enero, es decir hoy, y lo que escribí el treinta de diciembre lo escribí el treintaiuno, es decir ayer. Lo que escribo hoy en realidad lo escribo mañana, que para mí será hoy y ayer, y también de alguna manera: un día invisible. Pero sin exagerar.

I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.

Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? he couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point thiw was what he believed...

O gözler baÅŸar?, mutluluk, doyum isteÄŸi, zafer beklentisiyle bakan gözlerdi, bunlar sadece gelecekte olan ÅŸeylerdir, en iyisi hiç beklememek çünkü hiçbir zaman gelmez beklenenler.

These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.

No tengo mucho tiempo, estoy viviendo.

Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.

I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.

among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.

1 de enero Hoy me di cuenta de que lo que escribí ayer en realidad lo escribí hoy: todo lo del treintaiuno de diciembre lo escribí el uno de enero, es decir hoy. Lo que escribo hoy en realidad lo escribo mañana, que para mí será hoy y ayer, y también de alguna manera mañana: un día invisible. Pero sin exagerar.

That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave.

Y entonces yo llegué al año 1968 o el año 1968 llegó a mí. Yo ahora podría decir que lo presentí, que sentí su olor en los bares, en febrero o en marzo del 68, pero antes de que el año '68 se convirtiera realmente en año '68. Me da risa recordarlo, me dan ganas de llorar ¿estoy llorando?