One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: time metafiction fictions argentian-authors ficciones
Understanding is not absolutely final.
What's now right could be wrong later.
Tags: time change understanding point-of-view
Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.
Santosh KalwarTags: time earth life-lessons spent
I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!'
'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering.
'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard.
Tags: time youth old-age middle-age passage-of-time roman fable dialogue growing-old payne hope-and-despair
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
Jane AustenDeeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.
Friedrich NietzscheMemory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter BenjaminTags: experience time memory
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.
Deb CalettiTags: books love men romantic time heathcliff mr-darcy movies waste garbage rochester prince-charming romeo jay-gatsby
Every second counts
Dorothy KoomsonAll objects exist in a moment of time.
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