Time
Quotes
Irrational
Fancy
“Sometimes
I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in
front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the
world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to
live in that second, then you would live forever.”
―
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
“How
did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here
before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so
soon?”
―
Dr. Seuss
“It
is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look
upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“Time
takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
―
Stephen King, The Green Mile
“One
day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“Muddy
water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
―
Alan Watts
“Time
is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
―
William Penn
“Spring
passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer
passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn
passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter
passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
―
Yoko Ono
“The
future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
―
jim morrison
“For
a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person
who's waiting.”
―
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Three
o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
―
Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea
“I
have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no
appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy
- nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“There
are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss
forgettable, only bearable.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“As
if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“A
man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is
nursed in darkness.”
―
Jean Genet
“I'm
not much but I'm all I have.”
―
Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
“All
photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another
person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by
slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s
relentless melt.”
―
Susan Sontag
“Time
is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of
your hands forever.”
―
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
“Time
doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
―
Tennessee Williams, Memoirs
“There
are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness
away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
