Quotes about Time

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

The other thing is the old people, and I keep comin back to them. They look at me it's always a question. Years back I dont remember that. I dont remember it when I was sheriff back in the fifties. You see em and they dont even look confused. They just look crazy. That bothers me. It's like they woke up and they dont know how they got where they're at. Well, in a manner of speakin they dont.

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction

The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

She was old; millions of years old, she felt.

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.