#time

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#time #flowers

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#time #photography

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#time #present

In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-leemann #time-pocket #dreams

Three turns should do it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #hermione-granger #time-turner #prison

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#soon #time #night

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#passage-of-time #time #future

Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true. ↗

— Olivia Sinaga

#focus #lifetime #waste #dreams