Quotes About Time

You are not too old And it is not too late . . .

To be an artist means: not to reckon and count; to ripen like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without fear lest no Summer might come after. It does come. But it comes only to the patient ones, who are there as if eternity lay in front of them, so unconcernedly still and far. I am learning it daily, learning it through pains to which I am grateful: patience is all!

O futuro é fixo, meu caro senhor Kappus, nós é que estamos sempre em movimento no espaço infinito.

The hour bows down and stirs me with a clear and ringing stroke; my senses tremble. I feel that I can-- and seize the forming day.

Was berechtigt Sie dann, ihn, welcher niemals war, wie einen Vergangenen zu vermissen und zu suchen, als ob er verloren wäre?

Os filósofos deveriam ser pacientes e esperar, e não querer fundar uma soberania, nem um reino que se mantenha com os meios do seu tempo. Eles são os reis do vindouro, e as suas coroas ainda são unas com os minérios que enchem as veias das montanhas...

You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.

But that's getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

I'd had too many drinks. Time ran invisible, fluid, sad.

They were all such a part of that other life that's dead that I can't remember them all. (Time was as I was, but neither that time nor that I are anymore.)

Can I say in twenty minutes what was building twenty-one years and ended in twenty seconds?

Perhaps, like them, I was a throwback, a small distant meteorite that died several hundred years ago and now lived only by virtue of the light that speeds through space at too great a pace to realize that its source has become a piece of lead

Time was as I was, but neither that time nor that I are any more.)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

The years teach much the days never know.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.