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#time

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If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.


Emma Thompson


#age #bit #broken #corner #cry

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.


Dodie Smith


#death #horror #into #out #takes

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.


Julian Barnes


#history #life #meaning #memory #philosophy

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.


Francis Bacon


#life #time #age

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.


Audrey Niffenegger


#future #life #place #time #age

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it’s all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to anyone to say of another person He runs and jumps like a cheetah, perhaps because that first comparison comes from the magical late middle ages, when gentlemen went deer-hunting and no one had ever seen a cheetah running or even heard of its existence. Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate having to be updated.


José Saramago


#time #age

I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategically modest skins, wolfish dogs. My heart is racing and for a liquor-addled moment I think Holy shit, I've gone all the way back to the Stone Age until I realize that EXIT signs tend to congregate in the twentieth century.


Audrey Niffenegger


#time-travel #age

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.


Mark Strand


#poetry #time #age

Love is the point where Yes meets Yesterday, and that's why I put the No in Now.



Dark Jar Tin Zoo


#humor #love #no #now #time

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.


Enid Blyton


#gallop #holidays #summer #summer-holidays #time






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