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Quotes About Time

This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things." "No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?
~ Robin Hobb
There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no Kings.
~ Robin Hobb
Humans lived and died in a ridiculously short amount of time. Perhaps that was why they made so much noise when they were alive. Perhaps it was the only way they could convince one another of their significance.
~ Robin Hobb
Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.
~ Robin Hobb
I was thirty-five that year. When I was twenty, I would have considered a man of my current age to be teetering on the verge of dotage. These days, it seemed neither young nor old to me, but a suspension between the two.
~ Robin Hobb
The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz
~ Robin Hobb
Mornings come, whether we want them or not.
~ Robin Hobb
No one lives forever," the walls seemed to say. "Four stones stacked atop one another will outlive all your dreams and still stand when your descendants have long forgotten that you lived here.
~ Robin Hobb
All memories are connected, and like a man's skin, they can heal. In time, left to themselves, those memories would have stopped hurting you. You may someday wish you could call up that pain.
~ Robin Hobb
And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.
~ Robin Hobb
For time is the great enslaver of us all.
~ Robin Hobb
It is irony, is it not, that you live so short a time, and waste so much of it being stupid?
~ Robin Hobb
Time doesn't stop for her just because you're gone.
~ Robin Hobb
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change are what makes life interesting.
~ Robin Hobb
You've many tasks and duties, and I won't claim to know all that you do for our prince. I'm sure that at any moment of the day, you can find some reason to be too busy for this. But a man makes time for what is important in his life.
~ Robin Hobb
The Fool had always asserted that time moved in a great circle, but a decaying one, where at every turning humanity repeated mistakes, making them ever graver.
~ Robin Hobb
It is possible to be homesick for a time and lonely for the only other person to recall it.
~ Robin Hobb
no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.
~ Robin Hobb
Existuje místo, kde veÅ¡kerý ?as je nyní a vÅ¡echny volby prosté a vždycky tvé vlastní.
~ Robin Hobb
Demain vous doit la somme de vos jours passés.
~ Robin Hobb
Dawn came as early as it always does
~ Robin Hobb
Man cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.
~ Robin Hobb
You earn your future, Malta Vestrit.' The bead-maker cocked her head at her. 'What does tomorrow owe you?' 'Tomorrow owes me?' Malta repeated in confusion. 'Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.' Amber looked out to sea again. 'And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.
~ Robin Hobb
enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.
~ Robin Hobb