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Quotes About Time

It could have lived so much longer.
~ E. Lockhart
It is good to be loved, even though it will not last. It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.
~ E. Lockhart
We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour.
~ E. Lockhart
Nothing, I just lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever, that there will be another day and after that, yet another day
~ E. Lockhart
We have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experience the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive.
~ E. Lockhart
I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family." "They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.
~ E. Lockhart
The story ended a long time ago
~ E. Lockhart
Alguien escribió una vez que una novela debería suministrar una serie de pequeñas sorpresas. Yo recibo lo mismo pasando una hora contigo.
~ E. Lockhart
You're trying to prevent something that's already happened, said Kaspian-Lee calmly.
~ E. Lockhart
Teníamos calor y temblábamos, Éramos jóvenes y ancianos, Y estábamos vivos.
~ E. Lockhart
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
~ E. M. Cioran
It was the hour of unreality.
~ E. M. Forster
The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers.
~ E. M. Forster
When then is lost, as time is by, we look upon the yearly wine to see our substance in the lees. Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave? To look for clear and faithful sense, that gives a bodied stance bouquet, then see the vat at mirror's face and find in it, the yearly pace.
~ E. Marshall
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
~ E. O. Wilson
It is possible to be so worried about the time (chronos) for something—such as the return of Christ—that we miss the time (kairos) for something—such as living like citizens of the kingdom of God.
~ E. Randolph Richards
Last night When we were young Love was a star, A song unsung, Life was so new, So real, so right, Ages ago, Last night.
~ E. Y. Harburg
Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.
~ E.D. Baker
You don't like this quite country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment. "No; no better than I do a quiet country grave-yard. I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you," said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Ice Age lasted for an unimaginably long time. Many tens of thousands of years, which was just as well, for otherwise these people would not have had time to invent all these things. But gradually the earth grew warmer and the ice retreated to the high mountains, and people – who by now were much like us – learnt, with the warmth, to plant grasses and then grind the seeds to make a paste which they could bake in the fire, and this was bread.
~ E.H. Gombrich
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.
~ E.M. Cioran
Por muito que me esforce, não consigo desprezar todos esses séculos durante os quais nos dedicámos unicamente a dar uma última demão na definição de Deus.
~ E.M. Cioran
The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.
~ E.M. Cioran