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b02c8ab "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." time death J.R.R. Tolkien
9ce1b38 It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. time love inspirational roses caring Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ff128ce Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. time happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational anger worry grudge regret Roy T. Bennett
0413dd8 Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu money time integrity character trust inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes happiness life love inspirational common-sense class manners inner-peace dignity health respect morals patience Roy T. Bennett
23abf48 Time is the longest distance between two places. time Tennessee Williams
802b852 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. time initiative Andy Warhol
f76b713 Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. time pain letting-go-of-the-past letting-go learning inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes spiritual life inspirational heal let-go Roy T. Bennett
ed2977d They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite time magnus-bane will-herondale healing Cassandra Clare
c966c5a A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. time science life inspirational dare value waste Charles Darwin
6646f66 "I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before time J.R.R. Tolkien
416b0de Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. time reality past injuries scars memory Cormac McCarthy
c25f7d1 Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. time future past ticking possibilities Haruki Murakami
d747d64 It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. time love waiting Audrey Niffenegger
c55e1da The past is never dead. It's not even past. time William Faulkner
68e89e4 It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. time Audrey Niffenegger
91a27e3 One day spent with someone you love can change everything. time love Mitch Albom
3a78ec1 It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. time dark future past dreams inspirational age dreaming Edgar Allan Poe
ad275b3 Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. time life Stephen King
474bd1a The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. time Leo Tolstoy
327c22f There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. time memories sacrifice Cassandra Clare
de29e12 As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. time humor wisdom Henry David Thoreau
af9cd16 I'm not much but I'm all I have. time responsibility optimism Philip K Dick
13bcb44 Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. time seperation Tennessee Williams
91c2792 There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. time memories sadness Nicholas Sparks
a2f3923 The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. time libraries space Terry Pratchett
b9e55be She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. time disappointment night Markus Zusak
f22a7dd The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. time passage-of-time Neil Gaiman
2951aae And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. time man life plight Milan Kundera
1ffb7d3 The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. time life price value Henry David Thoreau
28648d7 It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That's what makes you really feel alive. You have to say 'no' to other things you're used to, and do it with all your heart. soul-and-heart stir-your-soul time inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism heart life inspirational awareness soul Roy T. Bennett
83543de Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. words time river water Norman Maclean
d3f5c8c It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. time opportunity marianne-dashwood openness self-disclosure intimacy Jane Austen
5c41aae Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time. time inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy Roy T. Bennett
e9d533a Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. time wasting-time William Faulkner
674d159 Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer John Lubbock
4701886 The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever. universe time love infinity paradox forever Craig Ferguson
0f1495a Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. time inspirational enterprise hard-work Thomas Jefferson
38e03a3 Time's the thief of memory time roland-deschain memory Stephen King
20e5f3c Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight David Foster Wallace
1aae45b I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. time nature youth love Robert Frost
19d223a But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. time heart the-little-prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
080871d Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. time life inspirational Colleen Hoover
a6ae7e8 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. time J.R.R. Tolkien
814e447 Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. time suffering wisdom Lynsay Sands
8d91ccb Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. time friendship Jeanette Winterson
8269e98 Eternity is in love with the productions of time. time William Blake
8df1adf When you are measuring life, you are not living it. time living Mitch Albom
575e517 "the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and time people sunsets lifetime tired Charles Bukowski
ab13700 An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. time passion Gustave Flaubert
505ad56 Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. action time inspirational Napoleon Hill
d8034bc "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird." time writing breaking-down-assignment project-management homework project time-management encouragement writing-advice childhood school Anne Lamott
1da64ee "Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future." time water Hermann Hesse
a9893f5 Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. time inspirational Brian Andreas
6254357 Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. madness time Susanna Clarke
31ccbc6 Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. time love museum space nostalgia Orhan Pamuk
589f6f2 For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. present time C.S. Lewis
02afa47 Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. time life inspirational Eckhart Tolle
dd546b2 A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune time William Faulkner
183fe11 Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. time John Updike
27afe35 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. activist beautiful-personatlity beautiful-soul fathers giving-heart helping-out homeless-tent-community jealousy marine-life-conservation medical-missions motivators openess outward-beauty people-of-action real-people rescuers search-and-rescue time true-beauty prayer writing compassion inspiration philosophy truth inspirational empathetic takers communicators perspectives inner-beauty tender givers loving charity mothers community friendships service reflection judgement vanity aging Shannon L. Alder
f123880 If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow. Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long. time science Bill Bryson
a057391 How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time. time life Ernest Hemingway
c9f7aa4 In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of. present time past life living-in-the-moment Paulo Coelho
a6412b0 Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. time T.S. Eliot
8cba158 By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. time choke Chuck Palahniuk
59c3b2c I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years. time John Green
bb0701f The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. time learning Geoffrey Chaucer
13639d3 And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. time life aging Martin Amis
3e7770b 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. time life-and-living time-passing José Saramago
707e8bf Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. time William Gibson
ece605a The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable. time finality Joyce Carol Oates
830de2e Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. time Haruki Murakami
76a3c4a 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. time actions fables necessary peace failure frustration nostalgia R.A. Salvatore
b03dc74 There is always time for another last minute time Terry Pratchett
d5e5e02 Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. time leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational priorities leader leaders priority focus Roy T. Bennett
6709e36 You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. time ordinary important Mitch Albom
1a1e24c 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. time grief senselessness C.S. Lewis
baebf1a "It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget"--and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change." time forget John Steinbeck
036289c 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. time sorrow Jacqueline Carey
8f0f883 Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way. time death life Cassandra Clare
b06ae65 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. time Julian Barnes
c735e7d Time is Galleons, little brother. time weasley-twins J.K. Rowling
5799c74 Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. time work whine complain Joan Didion
9b5f9e2 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. time india past humor Salman Rushdie
6ad9594 In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] time marriage true-love joy science love immensity vastness wife space Carl Sagan
91c8bda The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. time Ray Bradbury
b6c063e 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. present time past Christopher Isherwood
e36e4d5 The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. time intensity focus Robert Greene
11c7b64 Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. understanding time friends friendship reflection Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
f850fdf 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. time love modern-man quickly waste-time Erich Fromm
b23bd5e When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...] time kiss love fake staring Simone Elkeles
448b72e "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?" time James Baldwin
d40fb6a It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. time loneliness sadness melancholy Tim Winton
3c093bf 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. time John Steinbeck
e8360a8 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 ... time José Saramago
2cc0572 And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. time pleasure Julian Barnes
6a99f3f It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again. time fiction photographs Alan Moore
c79e963 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. words time space perception memory Isabel Allende
f962b0c It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then. time miley-cyrus ronnie the-last-song nicholas-sparks movie Nicholas Sparks
24abc88 Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung time inspirational Pearl S. Buck
5b7a515 Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again. time Margaret Atwood
ff1bfea 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. time perception Kurt Vonnegut
1edd539 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. time Markus Zusak
7c99dda A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead. time impermanence Vladimir Nabokov
5407155 Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. time John Steinbeck
1bab43c how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it. time descant fowl mervall paradox Eoin Colfer
e15365b "I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment." time Terry Pratchett
9daf806 There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. time tonight today Bob Dylan
92baa97 Time heals all wounds. time wound Stephen King
0867a6c First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. time Virginia Woolf
b267fb5 In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. time life wind-through-the-keyhole roland stephen-king Stephen King
9c999c3 Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. time lies reality past truth untruths Jeanette Winterson
dcc4274 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. time love-story marriage relationships romance love marriage-advice Esther Perel
50a2c94 To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers. time pass magnus-bane taken-for-granted year precious mortal Cassandra Clare
11bffa4 The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight. time work Paulo Coelho
a8b026e Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? time Tennessee Williams
e745040 The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. time speed memory Milan Kundera
4ab01fe You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. time Katherine Paterson
95001b2 You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye--and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren't thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together. And, no doubt, how you wished you'd had more time. Even if you'd had centuries... When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch--when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. time loss love qhuinn carpe-diem forever J.R. Ward
3e09b0d It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. time strange Veronica Roth
28e66c4 Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. time history meaning life philosophy rest memory Julian Barnes
f4d4d12 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. time walden Henry David Thoreau
34f5eb6 In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all. time Khaled Hosseini
1468321 Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand. time memory Marcel Proust
24281c1 I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. time plants landscape memory John Steinbeck
50db2ba "The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circle. Suppose the Mother of All Minutes started right here, on the sidewalk in front of the Morning Lenape Building, and the parade of minutes that followed--each of them, say, one inch long-- headed out that way, down Bridge Street. Where would Now be? This minute? Out past the moon? Jupiter? The nearest star? Who came up with minutes, anyway? Who needs them? Name one good thing a minute's ever done. They shorten fun and measure misery. Get rid of them, I say. Down with minutes! And while you're at it--take hours with you too. Don't get me started on them. Clocks--that's the problem. Every clock is a nest of minutes and hours. Clocks strap us into their shape. Instead of heading for the nearest star, all we do is corkscrew. Clocks lock us into minutes, make Ferris wheel riders of us all, lug us round and round from number to number, dice the time of our lives into tiny bits until the bits are all we know and the only question we care to ask is "What time is it?" As if minutes could tell. As if Arnold could look up at this clock on the Lenape Building and read: 15 Minutes till Found. As if Charlie's time is not forever stuck on Half Past Grace. As if a swarm of stinging minutes waits for Betty Lou to step outside. As if love does not tell all the time the Huffelmeyers need to know." time Jerry Spinelli
8e1843c I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair ... Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live--that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea... time reality fantasy shadow Fyodor Dostoyevsky
73e5ef1 Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. time marriage Timothy Keller
2ead4b8 Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you. time activity carpe-diem procrastination Paulo Coelho
6f8267b They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame. time koboi paradox opal Eoin Colfer
e2329ea ... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future. time Hermann Hesse
4c3d04c Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. time the-cloth-of-time Haruki Murakami
3c5dfb5 He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. time Jack London
c8a3f91 From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible. time Jonathan Safran Foer
062f654 It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying. time stars dark bleeding mornig day blue dying Markus Zusak
f9d0f87 Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. time live-life Jonathan Safran Foer
fcb7ad3 The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. time Jonathan Swift
50dc823 For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief--how could they ever be other than what they are? time time-passing innocence childhood nostalgia Ian McEwan
8be9df9 Time and death sleep side by side. time Garth Nix
7af5e16 Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. time thoughts Alexandre Dumas
a967c90 "Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, time morality happiness how-to-be-happy place Robert Green Ingersoll
323869f In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. time future Dan Simmons
bf0703e But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with an electric lamp requires not the strongest lamp possible, but one of which the current can cease to illuminate, can be diverted so as to give heat instead of light. To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth's surface, intersecting with a vertical line the horizontal line which it began by following, is capable of converting its speed into lifting power. Similarly, the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is the most brilliant or their culture the most extensive, but those who have had the power, ceasing suddenly to live only for themselves, to transform their personality into a sort of mirror, in such a way that their life, however mediocre it may be socially and even, in a sense, intellectually, is reflected by it, genius consisting in reflecting power and not int he intrinsic quality of the scene reflected. time seed social proust genius talent intellect Marcel Proust
2650662 Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. sleep sanity time inspirational rest memory Roger Zelazny
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