Time
Quotes - Suspect each moment
“I
wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is
it?"
And
he says,
How
much time do you want?”
―
Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God
“Happy
moments can turn into pain, given time.”
―
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“How
much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of
disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing,
when everything was possible.”
―
Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“It's
funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the
minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it
does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in
being here.”
―
Kirstie Alley
“Beauty
is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to
save another struggling soul like you.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Suspect
each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
―
John Updike, A Month of Sundays
“Time
present and time past
Are
both perhaps present in time future
And
time future contained in time past.”
―
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Another
glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent
pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we
take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This
is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”
―
John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
“And
everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
―
Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Your
hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are
nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since
"the rest of your life" won’t last forever.”
―
Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades
“It’s
always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late,
everyone’s forgotten.”
―
Anna Wintour
“It's
paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the
idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
―
Andy Rooney
“Time
interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be
reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem
interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times
that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with
tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory.
And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape
duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
―
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Adventure
works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their
lives.”
―
Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
“There
is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
―
Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
“Time
is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil
or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time
that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”
―
Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
“We
are all migrants through time.”
―
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
“History
isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know
that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither
victorious or defeated.”
―
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
“It's
funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at
the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
―
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
“The
memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“This
is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”
―
Maya Angelou
“The
frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into
nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it.
Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the
boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Any
time not spent on love is wasted.”
―
Torquato Tasso
“It’s
how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with
melancholy.”
―
Tim Winton, Breath
“But
now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than
yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date,
rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not
perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.”
―
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
“The
worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel
later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all
wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...”
―
José Saramago, The Cave
“There
are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.”
―
Martin Luther
“I
am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing
faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices
about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the
forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting
to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures
multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all
life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck
on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay
until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time.
It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems
unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and
regret foreclosures and try to live with them.”
―
David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and
Arguments
“Time
is Galleons, little brother.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Maybe
reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When
you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be
there more fully than you can in your real life.”
―
Helen Humphreys, Coventry
“And
so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”
―
Jimi Hendrix
“Ô,
Wanderess, Wanderess
When
did you feel your
most
euphoric kiss?
Was
I the source
of
your greatest bliss?”
―
Roman Payne
“As
she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.
This
time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t
true love, I don’t know what was.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
“I
am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An
echo from another time, another place.”
―
Michael Faudet
