Quotes about Time
We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
- Alice Hoffman
You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.
- Alice Hoffman
Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.
- Alice Hoffman
All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
- Alice Hoffman
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
- Alice Hoffman
Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.
- Alice Hoffman
People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.
- Alice Hoffman
In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.
- Alice Hoffman
Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.
- Alice Hoffman
She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.
- Alice Hoffman
Love someone and they're yours forever, no matter how much time intervenes, that's what Margaret Grey knew. The sky will always be blue; the wind will always rise up across the meadow and thread its way through the grass.
- Alice Hoffman
It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.
- Alice Hoffman