Quotes About Time

Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years. He had preserved a tolerably good remembrance of what the youth had been, and was now to find out what the man had become.

Ho solo due avversari - non dico due vincitori, perché li sottometto con la tenacia - la distanza e il tempo. Il terzo, ed è il più terribile, sta nella mia condizione di mortale. Ciò solo può fermarmi nella strada che percorro e prima che abbia conseguito lo scopo a cui miro. Tutto il resto l'ho calcolato.

Nothing passes the time, or shortens the path, like a thought which engrosses all the faculties of an individual's organization. Our external existence is a sleep, of which this thought is the dream; and while we are subjected to its influence, time has no longer any measure, nor is there any distance in space. We leave one place and arrive at another, and are conscious of nothing between.

La jeunesse est une fleur dont l'amour est le fruit...

Siempre tiene uno prisa por ser feliz, señor Danglars; porque quien ha sufrido mucho, apenas puede creer en la dicha.

The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance.

Ahora bien, a mí me agradan los fantasmas, nunca he oído decir que los muertos hayan hecho en seis mil años tanto daño como los vivos en un solo día.

God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers

Sir, you are punctual, and I cannot complain that you have broken your promise; but oh, how the time has dragged, and how long it has seemed before the clock struck six!

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

Todo mal tiene dos remedios, el tiempo y el silencio.

Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.

Punctuality,' said Monte Cristo, 'is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.

Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess. Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

L'avenir est à Dieu, le présent est à nous, mais le passé est au néant.

Totdeauna ne gr?bim când e vorba de fericire, pentru c? atunci când ai avut mult de suferit, abia mai crezi în noroc.

Death does not reckon by years; it is impartial; some die young, some reach old age.

A tutti i mali ci sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio.

Un ceas de când te-am p?r?sit, e un veac de când nu È›i-am mai spus: Te iubesc.

Mas los puntos de vista cambian mucho en la vida, que es una linterna mágica cuyos aspectos altera todos los años el ojo del hombre. De ahí resulta que, del último día de un año que se veía blanco, el primer día de otro que se verá negro, sólo hay el espacio de una noche.

Fino a quel giorno che Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo il futuro, tutta la saggezza umana sarà in queste due parole: aspettare e sperare!

Era venuto il momento di fissare lo sguardo sullo spettro implacabile che cammina a fianco di ogni creatura umana e che a ogni pulsazione del cuore le grida: Tu morrai

A tutti i mali vi sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio

Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit; Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.