#quotes about time

[previouslysad]

V. E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

[bluecorners]

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

- Delmore Schwartz

[ladyswartzrot]

If time for me really is a series of bookmarks, then I feel as if someone has shaken the book and those yellowed slips of paper, torn matchbook covers and flattened coffee stirrers have fallen to the floor, and the dog-eared flaps have been pressed smooth.

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

[ladyphlogiston]

But what if we don't believe time is linear?

Karina Drawfee

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

"Losing a loved one has a way of revealing a too-simple truth: that time, as people often claimed but never heeded, really was precious." - from "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus

[quote-assassin]

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted."

~John Lennon

[celcius-451]

Time gets us all. I don’t mean dying. I just mean erosion. We’re so drunk, so full of passion, our hot tongues and quickened breaths. Our anxiousness to see each other again, to explore bodies, to devour wholly our souls. I want you so much, I want to put you in my mouth. I want to swallow you down, to feel you within me, to digest you.

And don’t be freaked out. Because in time, I will want that less. I will see you as a person with nuances and faults and intricacies.

And we will devour each other wholly but slowly. Piece by piece, a fingernail here, a lock of hair there. An eyeball. An idea. A disagreement. A bad dream. A laugh. One tiny part at a time, we will eventually be fully with and without each other.

And we will see one another as we see ourselves.

And we will grow complacent, and you’ll become a little more laid back, and I’ll become a little more professional, with my teaching job and pension and a wife, probably some cats, and no longer on any relevance to speak of.

It’s disgusting. It’s terrible. What time will do to us, Nan. I hate it. I promise to fight it. To stop time. To have this moment where everything about you is pink lips and an open ear and a soul made of jewels. I should stop talking. I should stop using every last centimeter of tape in your answerphone, but I can’t. I can’t relent to time. It’s the only thing that stands in our way. Just give me this. Just give me this moment. Forever.

Within The Wires, Season 5, Episode 10: March 1997

[artofdyingslowly]

“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?”

- Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (New Directions, 1964)