Anime Quotes About Time

Characters who have too much of it, too little, or who only understand its shape in hindsight.

A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Straizo JoJo's Bizarre Adventure What the story had to build
“I'm not asking for immortality. All I want is a little more time.”
Heiter Frieren: Beyond Journey's End The strongest objection, answered
“Frieren, that's not the point of having relationships with people.”
Eisen Frieren: Beyond Journey's End The case against this line
“That "one one-hundredth" changed you.”
Eisen Frieren: Beyond Journey's End What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Chapel the Evergreen Trigun The contrarian read
“If you don't go now, you'll come to regret it... ...and then you'll wonder if you could have made it to him in time.”
Frieren Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Read against the character's own history
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Sein Frieren: Beyond Journey's End What the story had to build
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Rintaro Okabe Steins;Gate The strongest objection, answered
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Rintaro Okabe Steins;Gate The case against this line

The sage's shelf

If time is the thread you are pulling, the book worth your time is Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It says in three hundred pages what the quotes above say in a line each, and the three approaches feed each other.

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Anime Quotes About Time

Themes that travel with time

The sage's shelf