Time Quotes by Mason Cooley

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

— Mason Cooley

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

— Mason Cooley

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

— Mason Cooley

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

— Mason Cooley

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

— Mason Cooley

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

— Mason Cooley

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

— Mason Cooley

The present necessarily betrays the past.

— Mason Cooley

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

— Mason Cooley

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

— Mason Cooley

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

— Mason Cooley

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

— Mason Cooley

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

— Mason Cooley

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

— Mason Cooley

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

— Mason Cooley

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

— Mason Cooley

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

— Mason Cooley

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for…

— Mason Cooley

For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then…

— Mason Cooley

The time I kill is killing me.

— Mason Cooley

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

— Mason Cooley

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

— Mason Cooley

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

— Mason Cooley

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

— Mason Cooley

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

— Mason Cooley

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

— Mason Cooley

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

— Mason Cooley

Many try to force the past to change.

— Mason Cooley

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

— Mason Cooley

The right time to die is never exactly now.

— Mason Cooley

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

— Mason Cooley

The older we become, the more certain our future.

— Mason Cooley

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

— Mason Cooley

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

— Mason Cooley

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

— Mason Cooley

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

— Mason Cooley

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

— Mason Cooley

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

— Mason Cooley