Time takes life away and gives us memory... Mysticism for Beginners: Poems
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Quote:- Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]
Confessions
Author:- Augustine of Hippo
Category:- time
Quote:- Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen
A Child Across the Sky
Author:- Jonathan Carroll
Category:- time
Quote:- 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.
Written on the Body
Author:- Jeanette Winterson
Category:- time
Quote:- Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.
Author:- Vishwanath S J
Category:- philosophy,time
Quote:- Time to me is a renewable resource that pays infinite dividends when invested in purposed priorities.
Author:- Richie Norton
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.
No One Is Here Except All of Us
Author:- Ramona Ausubel
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Author:- Ray Bradbury
Category:- inspiration,time
Quote:- Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
Be with Me
Author:- J. Lynn
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness as it whisked her life downstream, a life she had to constantly strain to keep from breaking apart.
The Vegetarian
Author:- Han Kang
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was always a foreign concept in nature; us trees simply don’t feel its presence.
As Told by a Tree
Author:- Tina Morlock
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.
Illusions
Author:- Aprilynne Pike
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Author:- Gabrielle Zevin
Category:- time
Quote:- Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
Thief of Time
Author:- Terry Pratchett
Category:- time