We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
Tags: life past future present time understanding attitude choices
I can't destroy things so beautiful."
"Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.
Tags: time destruction destroy
Give time time.
Paulo CoelhoTags: time
Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?
Nadège RichardsTags: life love time today regret lessons young-love taking-chances
No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
Alice HoffmanTags: time
The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.
Michelle MadowTags: life humanity time space
I loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of billions of stars was its own sun. It could have its own solar system of planets orbiting around it, and some of those planets could even contain life.
The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.
Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it’s only for a short while?
Tags: life humanity time space
It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.
Andrew LevkoffTags: time aging the-past time-passing
The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.
Omar KhayyámTags: life time consequences inevitability
(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22
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