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1b00f4d Nothing stands still, except in our memory. time Philippa Pearce
7698141 Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out. disney disney-world hunter luc shimmer time vacation world year Jennifer L. Armentrout
bcf1895 Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. nabokov time Vladimir Nabokov
697b083 For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. time Tom Stoppard
0851c9d The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ? time Ruth Ozeki
0d527bf Photographs are just light and time, photography time turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
e879c08 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike faustus marlowe stars time Christopher Marlowe
e08600c 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. love marriage marriage-advice romance time Esther Perel
3e18f6d I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us. english-language french time Christopher Hitchens
659a9e1 He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. idleness retirement time Albert Camus
86c83d9 She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else. time Zadie Smith
028005c It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me. teach time Nicholas Sparks
a8131e1 Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. hurry impatience love time William Shakespeare
5d6f549 "What's done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything ahead, waiting for us." Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge." -- alive complete done everything fin finished free future goodbyes real revenge thoughts time waiting wasted wasting-time V.C. Andrews
12b7d7d "Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time." relationships time Jules Verne
6d5757f Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to work to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. time Martin Luther King Jr.
e232093 The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich. past present time Jeanette Winterson
c71aef1 I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop. gallop holidays summer summer-holidays time Enid Blyton
4bcea54 Time is a waste of money. time Oscar Wilde
271a64c After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. enemy life time Chuck Palahniuk
16c0fec The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world? reality time Jeanette Winterson
b2c6a06 You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. shame talk time Raymond Carver
f274e1a And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time. kissing love lovers time Alan Lightman
0c2f66a For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. time Jacqueline Carey
550656f If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. conformity future history mainstream new-orleans past present time timelessness Tom Robbins
e366c5f The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars. human life slaughterhouse-five time Kurt Vonnegut
834503a I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. history humans life personality soul time James Baldwin
394f858 It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission. time Sara Zarr
3aa9d8e For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. life time Virginia Woolf
5e5f98d There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. beauty death dusk fall garden gardens north-and-south outside seasons time winter Elizabeth Gaskell
6baf0dc "Not the intense moment life man moment time T. S. Eliot
8bd84b1 You can't buy time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get most of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart. life pity time Sherrilyn Kenyon
45ebf7a Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift. time Maya Angelou
6af6034 When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? time Tom Stoppard
491430c I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. love stephen-king time Stephen King
1233730 It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came. And, like one of those ghosts who are said to linger around depots late at night, asking passersby for the timetable of the Midnight Express that derailed twenty years before, I wandered from light to light until that dreaded hour when all the doors closed and, stepping from the world of warmth and people and conversation overheard, I felt the old familiar cold twist through my bones again and then it was all forgotten, the warmth, the lights; I had never been warm in my life, ever. time winter Donna Tartt
cc63552 In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. museums objects time Orhan Pamuk
0c4597c Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me. time William Shakespeare
a38b45b She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That's what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die. time Ruth Ozeki
f8a44cd Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? time Douglas Coupland
a888725 Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. literature past present tense time John Green
6035bd2 "Dimanchophobia: sundays time unstructured-time Douglas Coupland
f9b0d8b It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know. i-don-t-know lives remember time wonder Markus Zusak
045ae6c Deja vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated. quotes time Paulo Coelho
4013b18 It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond. journey time travel J.R.R. Tolkien
01dffc6 I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN. reality time Terry Pratchett
ee2ae36 ...everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go! home life people somewhere time Fyodor Dostoyevsky
08c5b42 Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster. time Douglas Coupland
02ed548 ... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. time Mark Haddon
435daf3 Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. mirrors reflections seconds shrinking silence surreal time warped wavering Haruki Murakami
1cb372b ... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. depository example future history lesseon past present rival time truth warning witness Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
e292378 Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. eternity free-will maturity melancholy pain reconciliation the-keys-to-december time Roger Zelazny
36e0296 Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever. pain time Graham Greene
5901959 Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind? time Robin Hobb
9c4ed2e Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway? time wrong Mary Balogh
cb93884 The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. productivity success time Henry David Thoreau
60a902f There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. murder time T.S. Eliot
f5071d6 Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. books history literature reading time words Julian Barnes
ca2d947 You put your time where your priority is. time Sebastian Faulks
9dcd321 Let every man be master of his time. life self-determination time William Shakespeare
abe350f Dreams should make you think, 'If I had the guts to do it and I didn't care what anybody thought, this I what I'd really do'. do dreams lesson life time Cecelia Ahern
f0f0ca5 Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? cause-and-effect chain-of-events chance change choice circumstance crime fate free-will good-and-evil intention long-term opposites result results time H. Rider Haggard
b2e6a0f But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know? einstein-s-dreams past time Alan Lightman
aeee71d The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. time Michel de Montaigne
0a1616a Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped. love time Laura Dave
d48c653 When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation? Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute? charles-dickens death life old-age regret time writers writing Dan Simmons
d14212b "It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor." inspirational late plan time Mitch Albom
7bd69c4 Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. moon sun time Ray Bradbury
49967d1 Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. nights passage-of-time time William Shakespeare
8bda5a8 What business does memory have with time? memory time Jess Walter
1fb918f Ever since I was fifteen, that is to say from that moment when I lost all that was left me of my childhood, from the moment when I ceased to be aware of the present and knew only the past hurrying into the future, that is to say into the abyss, ever since I became fully conscious of time I have felt old and I have wanted to live. I have run after life as though to catch time, and I have tried to live. I have run after life so much that it has always escaped me, I have run, I have never been late and never too early, and yet I have never caught up with it: it is as though I have run alongside of it. What is life, I may be asked. For me, life is not Time; it is not this state of existence, for ever escaping us, slipping between our fingers and vanishing like a ghost as soon as you try to grasp it. For me it is, it must be, the present, presentness, plenitude. I have run after life so much that I have lost it. the-present time Eugène Ionesco
4d6bceb ...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time. captain-dimak catching-mistakes children information mistakes misuse-of-time teaching time Orson Scott Card
b4f00a4 Shit. He was in such deep, unending shit. rowan-whitethorn throne-of-glass throne-of-glass-book-4 throne-of-glass-series time time-passing Sarah J. Maas
e5dd3f7 There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin. beginning coincide depression empty end ending initiate lead loss mark mourn mourning numb passage show sign sorrow space start time Robin Hobb
c03b282 Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they're gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you're ignored, and then you write to them again and you're ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they're so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel? lesson life quote time Cecelia Ahern
f91c782 "Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator." humor mogget time Garth Nix
0f48f41 [When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. reading time Mark Helprin
21e293a The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. passions time Marcel Proust
558175f "It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think. death gratitude love mother space time Kathryn Lasky
4a0d05e Love is not love Which alters when alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: Oh, no, it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken. time William Shakespeare
7f92b52 When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See? honestly jobs minutes time working Enid Blyton
9e59ba0 Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. horrors stasis time William S. Burroughs
4a840e5 There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. And there is another personal satisfaction: that of the people who like to recount their adventures, the diary-keepers, the story-tellers, the letter-writers, a strange race of people who feel half cheated of an experience unless it is retold. It does not really exist until it is put into words. As though a little doubting or dull, they could not see it until it is repeated. For, paradoxically enough, the more unreal an experience becomes - translated from real action into unreal words, dead symbols for life itself - the more vivid it grows. Not only does it seem more vivid, but its essential core becomes clearer. One says excitedly to an audience, 'Do you see - I can't tell you how strange it was - we all of us felt...' although actually, at the time of incident, one was not conscious of such a feeling, and only became so in the retelling. It is as inexplicable as looking all afternoon at a gray stone of a beach, and not realizing, until one tries to put it on canvas, that is in reality bright blue. feeling journals meaning stories time writing Anne Morrow Lindbergh
6ea5826 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. clock shakespeare sonnet time William Shakespeare
7185ea8 [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. maritime ocean sea time Herman Melville
917f3d1 No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. time Wallace Stegner
47ef28d I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. space time James Joyce
e68c3f5 Again time elapsed. drew elapsed mystery nancy time Carolyn Keene
c6ce5b7 "When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour." He paused. "It's Zero Hour now." murder-mystery time Agatha Christie
fc0af4d Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older. future life place time Audrey Niffenegger
10565e7 One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. time G.K. Chesterton
b840d27 Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen. time Paul Bowles
fe542ff For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another. time Virginia Woolf
1822024 The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away. existence time world Henry Miller
a65b741 She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. rivers time Caleb Carr
5d9ea9e But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. hotspur time William Shakespeare
b234b17 "It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it." time true Haruki Murakami
988eddb Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak. epistemology humanity past present time trees George R.R. Martin
b74d6aa I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together. death devotion mourning sorrow time Joseph Conrad
9167986 Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful creatures in all the world, and magic besides. They mate very rarely, and no place is more enchanted than one where a unicorn has been born. The last time she had seen another unicorn the young virgins who still came seeking her now and then had called to her in a different tongue; but then, she had no idea of months and years and centuries, or even of seasons. It was always spring in her forest, because she lived there, and she wandered all day among the great beech trees, keeping watch over the animals that lived in the ground and under bushes, in nests and caves, earths and treetops. Generation after generation, wolves and rabbits alike, they hunted and loved and had children and died, and as the unicorn did none of these things, she never grew tired of watching them. animals beautiful born enchanted forest magic mate nature pool spring time unicorn unicorns vain virgins watching Peter S. Beagle
dc9ee8d You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up. new-orleans night relativity time Tom Robbins
d81a066 Take too much time, and time will take you. carpe-diem inspirational inspiring mortal mortality motivating motivational seize-the-day time Lisa Kleypas
209cfd8 C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed by it--how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home. heaven time Sheldon Vanauken
697c0a0 Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. images painting paintings time Paul Auster
e072d65 If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it--like a secret vice! solitude time Anne Morrow Lindbergh
48c35e7 "The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy." politics power time violence Frank Herbert
9ab453f Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long. patience time Charles Baudelaire
1f21ee0 She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows!--all are passing!--all is past! loss time Elizabeth Gaskell
eabe906 Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not. physics space time topology Terry Pratchett
87de3c8 But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes. different time J.R.R. Tolkien
a650049 but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time. chronos kairos time Madeleine L'Engle
c309c40 While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. time Alan Lightman
91668b1 To world enough and time. love time world Audrey Niffenegger
ab4f63a "You see," he continued, beginning to feel better, "once there was no time at all, and people found it very inconvenient. They never knew wether they were eating lunch or dinner, and they were always missing trains. So time was invented to help them keep track of the day and get to places where they should. When they began to count all the time that was available, what with 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year, it seemed as if there was much more than could ever be used. 'If there's so much of it, it couldn't be very valuable,' was the general opinion, and it soon fell into dispute. People wasted it and even gave it away. Then we were giving the job of seeing that no one wasted time again," he said, sitting up proudly. "It's hard work but a noble calling. For you see"- and now he was standing on the seat, one foot on the windshield, shouting with his ams outstretched- "it is our most valuable possession, more precious than diamonds. It marches on, it and tide wait for no man, and-" At that point in the speech the car hit a bump in the road and the watchdog collapsed in a heap on the front seat with his alarm ringing furiously." norton phantom the time tock tollbooth watchdog Norton Juster
c868f5f Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value. time value Kathy Acker
583114c I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. dying memories time Will Schwalbe
09ba6ed Live. For Now. For the time being. live time wisdom Ruth Ozeki
a0365ac Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. fallen-nations futility inevitability knowledge learning man mankind materialism nations passing-of-time time H. Rider Haggard
529cfb9 Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...] time time-travel Ursula K. Le Guin
7db887c "She never sent the castle to sleep", said Granny, "that's just an old wife's tale. She just stirred up time a little. It's not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It's like rubber, is time, you can stretch it to suit yourself." Magrat was about to say: That's not right, time is time, every second lasts a second, that's its job. The she recalled weeks that had flown past and afternoons that had lasted forever. Some minutes had lasted hours, some hours had gone past so quickly she hadn't been aware they'd gone past at all. "But that's just people's perception, isn't it?" "Oh yes", said Granny, "of course it is, it all is, what difference does that make?" rubber stretch-time time Terry Pratchett
86769ce The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time--the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes--and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine...dispensed Time in blowing weathers. time Ray Bradbury
0b6c58a There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. life time Ernest Hemingway
4358799 Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone time Jerry Spinelli
592aa3d Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. life memories time Lois Lowry
9e48b50 "My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting." stillness time Henry David Thoreau
919ba26 Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real. time John Fowles
85d9bc3 Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. death life passage time Annie Dillard
7bc5778 The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. time Terry Pratchett
1ea576c Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don't know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can't go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn't fit anything. time J.D. Salinger
ed93642 And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. memory time Julian Barnes
eab0002 The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories. time Christopher Paolini
550280e "She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry." "Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way." "A week?" "That means seven days." "Yes, I know the gods' calendar," he said huffily. "But a whole week?" "Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before. He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world." funny time world Scott Westerfeld
3e1ae1d "Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' `If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.' `I don't know what you mean,' said Alice. `Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!' lewis-carroll mad-hatter time wordplay Lewis Carroll
8c73465 August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. imagery page-109 summer time Jonathan Safran Foer
27e1fa7 Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity. mortality time Margaret George
a98a446 I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead. prayer time Peter Kreeft
309861f Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. time Gloria Naylor
a302e0c Do you worry sometimes that all the really great stuff has already happened? time Audrey Niffenegger
914afe3 Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature. time Stanisław Lem
6056afc Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. nikolai old time young Nikolai Gogol
5c0485d I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since I last looked at the clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years. school time John Green
54f9252 She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay. loss time youth Annie Dillard
42cd13a "Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history." science time Doris Lessing
4ad2761 Rather, what happened to human illusions was that they crumbled, they withered away. It was a long and wearisome process, like a toothache reaching far into the soul. But you can pull out a tooth and it will be gone. Illusions, however, even when dead, continue to rot and stink within us. We cannot escape their taste and smell. We carry them around with us all the time. time Julian Barnes
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