Quotes About Time

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

?ki saatlik ya?am iki sayfal?k bir yaz?dan daha iyidir diye emin olmay?n. Yaz? yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.

Forgive me for not having answered you right off, but I still have not developed the technique for making good use of my few hours; midnight comes apace, as now.

The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.

I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

Please, Father, let he future rest, as it deserves. If you wake it ahead of time, the only result is a sleepy-headed present. You shouldn't need your son to remind you of that.

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

Ainoastaan käsityksemme ajasta antaa meille mahdollisuuden puhua viimeisestä tuomiosta, vaikka kyseessä on itse asiassa sotaoikeus.

Cînd eÈ™ti cameriste, odat? cu trecerea timpului, ai impresia c? eÈ™ti cu totul pierdut? È™i uitat?, e ca munca în min?, cel puÈ›in aÈ™a e pe coridorul secretarilor, zile întregi nu vezi pe nimeni în afar? de cîÈ›iva petenÈ›i care se furiÈ™eaz? de colo colo, neîndr?znind s? ridice privirea, È™i de celelalte dou?-trei cameriste, la fel de am?rîte de soarta lor.

Tinere?ea ve?nic? este imposibil?,chiar dac? n-ar exista alt obstacol,introspec?ia o face cu neputin??

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session.

Tüm insani hatalar sab?rs?zl?ktan, amaçla ilgili olan?n zamans?z kesintiye uÄŸrat?lmas?ndan ve söz sorunun sözde bir çitle çevrilmesinden doÄŸar.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astonishingly short. Now in my memory, it is so compressed that I can hardly understand, for example, how a young person can decide to ride to the next village without being afraid - that apart from accidents - even the time allotted to a normal, happy life is far too short for such a journey. (From: the next village)

The time allotted to you is so short that if you lose one second you have already lost your whole life, for it is no longer, it is always just as long as the time you lose.

It seemed as if the shame was to outlive him

It is a blow because it will take time and I need all the time I have and a thousand times more than all the time I have and most of all I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.

The road is endless, there are no shortcuts and no detours, and yet everyone brings to it their own childish haste.

My grandfather used to say, Life is amazingly short. Now, looking back, it all appears so crowded together that I can hardly see how a young man could, for example, make up his mind to ride to the next village without fearing that, even without any special misfortunes, a normal, contentedly spent life might entirely run its course long before such a journey was complete.

Sin duda la ciencia avanza, es imparable, incluso avanza con buena velocidad, cada vez más rápido, pero, ¿qué hay de admirable en eso? Es como si se quisiera admirar a alguien porque a medida que pasan los años se hace más viejo y, a consecuencia de ello, la muerte se fuera aproximando cada vez más rápido.

Odamda günlerce yaln?z?m, ziyan? yok. Dünyada da y?llarca yaln?z deÄŸil miydim?

Mein Großvater pflegte zu sagen: 'Das Leben ist erstaunlich kurz. Jeztz in der Erinnerung drängt es sich mir so zusammen, daß ich zum Beispiel kaum begreife, wie ein junger Mensch sich entschließen kann ins nächste Dorf zu reiten, ohne zu fürchten, daß - von unglücklichen Zufällen ganz abgesehen - schon die Zeit des gewöhnlichen, glücklich ablaufenden Lebens für einen solchen Ritt bei weitem nicht hinreicht.

Konu yaln?zca unutmak deÄŸil, çok daha ötesi. Çünkü insan unuttuÄŸuyla yeniden tan??abilir.