Time
Quotes - The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have
“You
can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and
let it rain down.”
―
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Even
a broken clock is right twice a day.”
―
Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air
“Happy
the man, and happy he alone,
he
who can call today his own:
he
who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow
do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be
fair or foul, or rain or shine
the
joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not
Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but
what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
―
Horace
“The
right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
―
Henry James
“Time
flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
―
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“Some
memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those
memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded.
The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I
am not a safe person.”
―
Han Kang, Human Acts
“I
look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling
lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of
mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my
shoulders.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Espere"
in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and
"hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect,
waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is
condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of
boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and
deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the
agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums
" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Nox
didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you
counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.”
―
Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller
“Grimly,
she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles
ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking
methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave. ”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“i
dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday.”
―
Gerard Way
“By
freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at
times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological'
time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door
to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Silence
can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling
inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means
absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A
gap of silence”)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“When
one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the
delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and
superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So '
here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for
a moment ")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“When
the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our
mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.
For
some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the
decoding of the chips of daily reality.
The
mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent.
("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Happiness
is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an
internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time.
Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an
external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of
fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was
greener over there")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“You
never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time
chooses you.”
―
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
“Stolen
moments” create a feeling of enjoyment in our “intensive time” awareness. The
glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole
lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and
shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ("Stolen
moments" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“When
we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when
the moment, which “was", no longer "is” and when only silence
remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: “What
went wrong?”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“There's
only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today
again.”
―
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“The
days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
―
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“When
we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort
our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our
history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns.
At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the
future" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Time
is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the
sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but
eternity remains.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
“But
there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly
across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and
fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of
clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the
continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and
day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“Relatedness
is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional
insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to
hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only
needed a light ")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“When
fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm.
Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing
living. ("Another empty room")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“It
is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know
what the feeling is”
―
W.B. Yeats
“When
illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping
away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only
betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Time
is the cruelest force of all.”
―
Cixin Liu, Death's End
