Quotes about Time

But won't you be ashamed To count the passing year At its mere cost, your debt Inevitably paid? For every year is costly, As you know well. Nothing Is given that is not Taken, and nothing taken That was not first a gift.

Bewildered in our timely dwelling place, Where we arrive by work, we stay by grace.

We must take love to the limit of time, because time can not limit it. A life cannot limit it. Maybe to have it in your heart all your life in this world, even while it fails here, is to succeed. Maybe that is enough.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.

and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was