Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Samuel Beckett

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Samuel Beckett

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Samuel Beckett

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

Samuel Beckett

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

Samuel Beckett

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Samuel Beckett

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Samuel Beckett

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

Salvador Dali

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

W. S. Gilbert

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

W. H. Auden

Time will say nothing but I told you so...

W. H. Auden

O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

W. H. Auden

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.

William Cowper

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

William Cowper

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

Van Morrison

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time...

Van Morrison

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time...

Van Morrison

Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time

Ursula K. Le Guin

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

One must work with time and not against it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

William Allingham

Autumn's the mellow time.

Warren Zevon

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Stephenie Meyer

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Thomas Pynchon

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Thomas Heywood

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

Thomas Gray

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.