Time Quotes - Page 37

• Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Work, Mean

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• I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Strength, Music, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

  William Shakespeare

  Knots, Hard

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1845, Oxford University Press

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• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Science, Decision

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• Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

  Jeaniene Frost

  Love Is, Dominion, Bones

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Watches, Tilt

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

  John Fowles

  Perfect, Humanity, Lightning

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Luck, Wish, One Day

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

  David Brin

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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

  Frank Herbert

  Doors, Vision, Broads

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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• Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

  Jennifer Egan

  Goons, Scotty

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• What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

  Tanith Lee

  Games, Play, Love And Death

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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• Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

  Taylor Swift

  Life Is Like, Steps, Walking

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• Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

  William Shakespeare

  Goes On, Crutches, Rite

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.

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• Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

  Walter Mosley

  Hate, Wings, Spiders

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• Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Past, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humor, Tragedy, Age And Youth

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• You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Looks, Surface

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Should, Categorical Imperative

  Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Wine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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• It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

  Pythagoras

  Path, Difficult, Walks

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• Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Past, Ready, Expressive

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• Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.88, Publishdrive

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• And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

  Joni Mitchell

  Games, Circles, Ponies

  Song: The Circle Game

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• There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Rejection, Nostalgia, Birth

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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