…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection; the private, and we must accept this, and it’s a hard thing to accept, the private is gone. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. And if you’re thinking how awful these sentiments are, you are perfectly correct, these are awful times, but you must remember as well that this has always been the chiefest characteristic of the Present, to everyone living through it; always, throughout history, and so far as I can see for all the days and years to come until the sun and the stars fall down and the clocks have all ground themselves to expiry and the future has long long shaded away into Time Immemorial: the Present is always an awful place to be.
Tony KushnerTags: future present time suffering touch corruption privacy
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
Jane AustenTags: time reasoning feelings first-love
I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: time relaxation bath richelle richelle-goodrich grievance
It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.
Shreve StocktonTags: reality time judgment ego waste
University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.
Mhairi McFarlaneTags: time university
So he sat and listened to pigeons talking, till it seemed to him they were trying to lull the restlessness of Earth, and thought that they might by drowsy incantation be putting some spell against time, through which it could not come to harm their nests; for the power of time was not made clear to him yet and he knew not yet that nothing in our fields has the strength to hold out against time.
Lord DunsanyYou never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
Katherine PatersonTags: time looking-forward
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
Mitch AlbomTags: time
We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All throughout the universe, time resumed and nature sang.
Tags: time
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.
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