Time Quotes - I am hopelessly in love with a memory
“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
“She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts.
He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her.
He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels
different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“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
“Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does
not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he
gains—except kill it.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and
that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was
another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I
write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is
brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship
between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in
the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that
everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in
her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her
own poor memory.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us
make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is
particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs.
There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in
the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I
could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and
how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to
get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the
doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
― Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear
“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to
me.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was
that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in
the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments,
past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The
Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look
at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent
all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is
an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like
beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. When any
Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad
condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in
plenty of other moments.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will
do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you,
everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a
machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled,
will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events
of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the
mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you
will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized,
preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice
in the matter.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional
Universe
“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of
possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we
find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel
that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the
great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the
beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection,
to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as
something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are
writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will
end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the
other still to be discovered.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the
Erotic and the Domestic
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
― Michael Faudet
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills
all its students."
[Letter, November 1856]”
― Hector Berlioz
“My education was the liberty I had to read
indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
― Dylan Thomas
“Only human after all, she whispered.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an
absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched
that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width,
occupying no space.”
― Graham Greene
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were,
you can only be what you are here and now.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
