30 phrases from poems about time that will raise several reflections

Ah, whenever you dream something, you have the age of the time when you dreamed it: I forgot about the future.

Mario Quintana

Time dries up beauty, dries up love, dries up words. It leaves everything loose, light, disunited forever like the sands in the waters.

Cecília Meireles

I also know that time will be my friend for these things in life. With courage I follow, at that speed that I don’t fear, not even daring to be happy.

Fernando Pessoa

Time. Thing that just made the dear reader a little older when reaching the end of this line.

Mario Quintana

Time dries up desire and its old battles. The fragile arabesque, vestige of human moss, dries up in the dense mortuary turf.

Cecília Meireles

We are all enrolled in the school of life, where time is the master.

Cora Coralina

In an average life span of 50 years, 80 to 100 days are spent by men in the act of shaving alone. It is unknown what women do with that time.

Millor Fernandes

To live is to die, because we don’t have a day more in our life that we don’t have, in this, a day less in it.

Fernando Pessoa

The most ferocious of domestic animals is the wall clock: I know one that has devoured three generations of my family.

Mario Quintana

A marriage does not last the time of our days. A marriage, the fruit of true feeling, does not know what time is, it has the essence of eternity. Lasts beyond life!

Augusto Branco

No, Time, thou shalt not mock my changes! The pyramids you built again. They don’t seem new or strange to me; just the same with new clothes.

William Shakespeare

I am that woman to whom time has taught a lot. She taught to love life and not give up the fight, start over in defeat, renounce negative words and thoughts. Believe in human values and be optimistic!

Cora Coralina

They say time softens. This is missing the truth. Real pain gets stronger, like muscles, with age.

Emily Dickinson

There comes a time when you no longer say: my God. Absolute debug time. Time when you no longer say: my love. Because love was useless and eyes don’t cry. And the hands weave only the rough work. And the heart is dry.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

There is a portrait of water and brokenness, which from the bottom broke out of this memory, and everything that is a river opens in the corner that tells the old story of the portrait.

José Saramago

I’ll tell you a big secret, my dear. Don’t wait for the final judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

love me. It’s still time. Question me and I will tell you that our time is now.

Hilda Hilst

It is a test in suffering. But I wouldn’t defeat him. If time were medicine, no evil would exist.

Emily Dickinson

There is a time that dying does not worth it. A time has come when life is an order. Life only, without mystification.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

How time passes when we wait! Especially when it’s windy. It seems that the wind manages time.

Erico Verissimo

Past and future meet now, in the present.

The passage of time is measured by feelings: the good ones fly by, the bad ones seem to last an eternity.

Relentless and devouring of everything, time spares nothing and no one.

Enjoy the time you are given, because life is a breath and when we least expect it, we are already at its end.

How different the conception of time is according to age. For a child, it’s just an illusion, the hours until recess. As for the old man, he is sand that runs through his fingers.