Quotes About Time

Delays only double grief when one has to part ...

Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in. And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.

Nineteen years of light to reflect upon in eternal darkness!

grief may kill, although it rarely does, and never in a day, never in an hour, never in ten minutes.

Jamais homme bien amoureux n'a laissé les horloges faire paisiblement leur chemin.

The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.

A tous maux il est deux remèdes : le temps et le silence.

Hoy, caballero, tenemos otros intereses; cada edad trae consigo los suyos; y como hoy nos entendemos hablando, como en otra época nos entendíamos sin hablar, hablemos, si os parece.

Ceea ce lipseÈ™te judec??ilor mele de ast?zi e aprecierea exact? a trecutului, deoarece îl rev?d la cap?tul cel?lalt al orizontului. Pe m?sur? ce înaint?m, trecutul se È™terge în urma noastr? ca un peisaj prin care trecem. Mi se întâmpl? ceea ce se întâmpl? oamenilor care s-au r?nit în vis: îÈ™i privesc È™i îÈ™i simt rana, dar nu-È™i aduc aminte c? au primit-o.

But, alas, I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;

You don't write down every evening what has happened during the day: you don't keep a diary?' 'No. Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.

Ah c'est que tu as vingt ans, toi, et que tu peux oublier le passé, j'en ai cinquante, et je suis bien forcé de m'en souvenir

Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.

All earthly ills yield to two all-potent remedies, time and silence.

Never did a man, so deeply in love, allow the clocks to go on peacefully.

Hasty actions are generally bad ones.

But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?

until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'!

Sólo tengo dos adversarios, y no vencedores, porque con la constancia los sujeto, y son el tiempo y el espacio. El tercero, y el más terrible, es mi condición de hombre mortal.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man.

Alexandre Dumas

Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose

Recuando no passado, esqueço o presente; percorrendo livre e independente a História, esqueço-me de que estou preso