#interval

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. ↗

— George Kubler

#interval #renewal #sunyata #the-shape-of-time #time

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horrible #i #insane #intervals #long

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ↗

— George Santayana

#cure #death #enjoy #interval #save

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#asterisks #baby #certain #era #followed

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#farms #fort #hand #intervals #leavenworth

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. ↗

— Robert Plant

#had #i #intervals #learn #musical

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ↗

— John Barrymore

#beautiful girl #between #delightful #discovering #girl

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#barbarism #civilization #degeneration #directly #gone

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#before #between #breeze #bride #call