Quotes about time

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“The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.”

“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”

“It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.”

“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

“If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”

“bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks… you really have to be on your toes all the time.”

“Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.”

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

“For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves?”

“I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!"
"Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!"
"Bah, your brain isn't on board!”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”

“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”

“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”

“Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.”

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

“Time can tick when there is no clock.”

“As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”

“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”

“Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.”

“Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.”

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.”

“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”

“That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”

“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.”

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”

“It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek)
No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid)
Yeah, maybe next time I’ll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)”

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.”

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. - Lara Jean”

“For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

“By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working.
~pg. 317~”

“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”

“"You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you."
You do. You live in my head all the time.”

“Time is the enemy of identity”

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?”

“I’m an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

“There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts”

“Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”

“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”

“Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.”

“White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul
You live again in time, slender and silent.”

“Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”

“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

“My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.”

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”

“it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.”

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“you will never catch up.
Walk around feeling like a leaf
know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

--The Art of Disappearing”

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”

“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

“I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience”

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

“Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron, so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!”

“There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”

“Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…”

“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.”

“In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.”

“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”

“Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”

“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"
Yes… the same age you will be if you don't.”

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”

“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.”

“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”

“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”

“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.”

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

“He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time”

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”

“The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.”

“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home… and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”

“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”