Time
Quotes - I do not particularly like the word 'work’
“I
lied and said I was busy.
I
was busy;
but
not in a way most people understand.
I
was busy taking deeper breaths.
I
was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I
was busy calming a racing heart.
I
was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes,
this is my busy -
and
I will not apologize for it.”
―
Brittin Oakman
“The
first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the
recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its
glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will
not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had
they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are
unfit for illumination.”
―
Joseph Campbell
“Time
expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Grief
... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth
starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up
till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost
pure time, empty successiveness.”
―
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“I
do not particularly like the word 'work’. Human beings are the only animals who
have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other
animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that
they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the
challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up
that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free
time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the
morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap
in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such
simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily
necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it,
but simply doing what needs to be done.”
―
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
“The
years teach much the days never know.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Aside
from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't
see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five
dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.”
―
Dave Barry
“Were
all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never
fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person
would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a
neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our
lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person
hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our
lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of
wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
―
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“No
people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can
be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
―
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
“Nostalgia
is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that
which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if
nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time,
particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty
thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of
failure.”
―
R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
“They
give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night
once more.”
―
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“I'll
come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”
―
Tallulah Bankhead
“You
can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“Everyday
is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor,
we've got 24 hours each.”
―
Christopher Rice
“Time’s
a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head.
“The goon won.”
―
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
