Quotes About Time

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

What's the rush, little fellow?" asked Bibwit Harte. "What seems to be the trouble?" "You're the little fellow!" Jack said. "Hmm, well…in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We're all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack.

Dried pasta from a box didn't advertise how long and hard you had labored.

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ur-matter, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

Disloyalty does not develop suddenly one day or grow quickly in just a month.

Don't belittle today's moment—the "now"—by trying to move into another metron prematurely

Time wasters, however, must be dealt with harshly or they may ruin our spiritual potential in God.

So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

Beginnings are such delicate times.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else.

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.