Quotes About Time

We're all going to die, love. I don't know anyone who's gotten out of this life alive

He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..

One day they'd be too old to do this, multiple climaxes in one night, having sex on a table, but it wouldn't matter. He'd enjoy her at every age, in whatever manner the gods allowed, even if it was just gazing at her in her rocking chair and loving the silver in her hair and the lines on her face that time had earned. As long as they were together, it wouldn't matter.

With our limited lifespans, we mere mortals have to figure out what but to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

Want mooie herinneringen zijn zuivere zielen, en de realiteit daarnaast een sterfelijk lichaam.

Ne podetinji ljude starost, ko sto se kaze, no samo jos ko pravu decu zatice nas.

Starost nas ne podetinji; izraz je loš - starost nas zati?e ko pravu decu još.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.

A vida é a infância da nossa imortalidade

Quem, de três milênios, não é capaz de se dar conta, vive na ignorância, na sombra, à mercê dos dias, do tempo.

We grieve because we have loved. We grieve because the person we have lost mattered to us. To say that grief should disappear on a neat timetable is an insult to the love we felt.

There's a scientific debate about the precise scale of our sleep loss, but the National Sleep Foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20 percent in just a hundred years.

One friend told me that she always knew her depression was lifting when she felt her sense of time expanding again

Slowness, he explained, nurtures attention, and speed shatters it.

As a culture, in the Western world, we work longer with each decade that passes. Ed Deci, a professor of psychology who I interviewed at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, has shown that an extra month per year has been tacked on to what, in 1969, was considered a full-time job.

A different study by Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine—who I interviewed—observed how long on average an adult working in an office stays on one task. It was three minutes.

What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that we don't have time to dream?

by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

Now that they are effectively under house arrest, what are kids doing with the time they used to spend playing? One study of this found that this time is now overwhelmingly spent on homework (which exploded by 145 percent between 1981 and 1997), screens, and shopping with their parents. A 2004 study found that U.S. kids spent 7.5 hours more each week on academics than they had twenty years before.

There's no point giving people sweet self-help lectures about the benefits of unplugging unless you give them a legal right to do it. In fact... [it] becomes a kind of maddening taunt... If you have an independent fortune and you don't need to work, then you can probably make these changes now. But for the rest of us, we need to be part of a collective struggle in order to reclaim the time and space that has been taken from us - so we can finally rest, and sleep, and restore our attention.