Time Quotes by Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

— Mason Cooley

The present necessarily betrays the past.

— Mason Cooley

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

— Mason Cooley

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— 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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

— Mason Cooley

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

— 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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

— Mason Cooley