Time
Quotes - The best use of life is love
“Tell
me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late
than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they
waiting for?"
"Well
[…] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel."
"And
when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”
―
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“The
best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to
love is now.”
―
Rick Warren
“If
you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your
life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing
in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing,
which is stupid.”
―
Alan Watts
“Sometimes
the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the
distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely,
live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone
else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no
tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping.”
― C.
JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
“You
never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it
time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of
the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess
the winning cards of life, our lives.”
―
José Saramago, Blindness
“Time
moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that
constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
―
William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
“You
see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the
very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to
be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been
seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to
love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that
encompass the experience of the amorous subject...
Love
at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly
adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a
memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)...
this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having
had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.
The
gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's
dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with
the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition:
nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they
seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time,
though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have
been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their
satisfaction).”
―
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“I
am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the
beginning.
There
are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly
time passes?
I
know you are unable to imagine this.
Nevertheless,
I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by
at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to
have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and
pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the
bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
―
Meg Rosoff, What I Was
“They'll
say you are bad
or
perhaps you are mad
or
at least you
should
stay undercover.
Your
mind must be bare
if
you would dare
to
think you can love
more
than one lover.”
―
David Rovics
“The
lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
―
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
“You
become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who
break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally,
by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes
drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But
these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly,
except to people who don’t understand.”
―
Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
