Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the…

“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I…

— Billy Collins

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to…

— Ben Gibbard

“I had learnt from my work: that all pain is erased in the passage of time. Not just by, but in. In ten decades…

— Kylie Ladd

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery

“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction. When things had…

— Sarah Morgan

“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in…

— John Irving

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense…

— Norman Davies

“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the…

— Neal Stephenson

“For everything there is a season. I'd miss having the seasons, people from New York like to say by way of indicating the extraordinary…

— Joan Didion

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of…

— Jose Saramago

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still.…

— Joseph Roth

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of…

— Patricia Hampl