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Quotes About Time

Fate rushes down upon us! The time drags and the days plod past, lulling us into thinking that the doom we fear will always so delay. Then, abruptly, the dark days we have all predicted are upon us, and the time when we could have turned dire fate aside has passed. How old must I be before I learn? There is no time; there is never any time. Tomorrow may never come, but todays are inexorably linked in a chain, and now is always the only time we have to divert disaster.
~ Robin Hobb
I was just thinking of all the years and times when I've sat across from you, and wondered if I'd ever truly seen you at all.
~ Robin Hobb
You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.
~ Robin Hobb
I lose my place in time. It seems to me that we have come this way before, done these things before, perhaps even shared these words before. Sometimes I believe it so strongly that I think that today is actually a memory or a dream.
~ Robin Hobb
Humans die and the memories of who they were and what they did fade. But stone remembers its task.
~ Robin Hobb
How long? I asked, and then remembered that speech came from my mouth. 'How long?
~ Robin Hobb
If only we fully lived in the present, all the tomorrows would take care of themselves
~ Robin Hobb
A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always." p. 429
~ Robin Hobb
Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.
~ Robin Hobb
Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me. Now
~ Robin Hobb
Hay un punto muerto en la noche, la hora más negra y fría, cuando el mundo se ha olvidado del atardecer y el alba no es todavía ninguna promesa. Un momento en que es demasiado pronto para levantarse, pero tan tarde que irse a la cama no tiene sentido.
~ Robin Hobb
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.
~ Robin Hobb
All of time, every sliced instant of it, is rich with vertices of choices. One becomes accustomed to that, to the point at which sometimes even I have to stop and remind myself that I am making choices, even when I do not seem to be. Every indrawn breath is a choice.
~ Robin Hobb
Jonge mensen schijnen er altijd van overtuigd te zijn dat er later meer tijd zal komen,' merkte Burrich op.
~ Robin Hobb
Death is always at the edge of now.
~ Robin Hobb
I supposed there was something about me that made all elderly folk assume my time was at their disposal.
~ Robin Hobb
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
~ Robin Hobb
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
~ Robin Hobb
Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings
~ Robin Hobb
Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.
~ Robin Hobb
Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.
~ Robin Hobb
Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
~ Robin Hood
Curious how even a little time can alter so much.
~ Robin Jarvis
God's time for mercy will come in fact, it has alredy come of our time for believing has arrived Ask in faith without wavering, but never cease to petition the king
~ Robin Jones