--- title: "1 Time Afraid Quotes By Jack Finney" description: "1 Time Afraid quotes by Jack Finney. Plus more from Jack Finney and more Time Afraid sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/jack-finney-31966_desire_haven-t-you-noticed-too-on-the-part-of-n_1340093.jpg" --- > [“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I heard so many people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/haven-t-you-noticed-too-on-the-part-of-nearly-everyone-you-know-a/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/jack-finney-31966_desire_haven-t-you-noticed-too-on-the-part-of-n_1340093.jpg) ## More by Jack Finney > [“...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone, and now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/we-re-a-people-who-pollute-the-very-air-we-breathe-and-our-rivers-we/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“But it wasn't till he'd been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/but-it-wasn-t-till-he-d-been-there-nearly-two-weeks-that-one-morning/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/labor-saving-technology-was-supposed-to-give-us-more-leisure-time-but/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/i-was-stunned-i-was-and-i-knew-it-an-ordinary-person-who-long-after/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/so-all-in-all-there-wasn-t-anything-really-wrong-with-my-life-except/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/haven-t-you-noticed-too-on-the-part-of-nearly-everyone-you-know-a/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/i-went-up-a-straight-crooked-lane-and-i-said-no-thanks-yes-if-yer/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/it-may-be-that-the-strongest-instinct-of-the-human-race-stronger-than/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/have-you-ever-given-someone-a-book-you-enjoyed-enormously-with-a/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/as-einstein-himself-pointed-out-he-said-we-re-like-people-in-a-boat/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/when-you-ve-heard-one-bagpipe-tune-you-ve-heard-them-both/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/maybe-i-live-in-what-is-for-me-the-wrong-time/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/she-wasn-t-actually-a-girl-you-d-turn-around-and-look-at-again-and/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [“Would you have references?" "I'm awfully sorry but I haven't. I just arrived in New York, and don't know a soul. Except you." I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/would-you-have-references-i-m-awfully-sorry-but-i-haven-t-i-just/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) > [And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-finney/and-that-my-friend-is-how-the-world-ends-on-the-edge-of-a-precipice/) [Jack Finney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-finney/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time-afraid/jack-finney/#itemlist", "name": "1 Time Afraid Quotes By Jack Finney", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I heard so many people wish that they lived 'at the turn of the century,' or 'when life was simpler,' or 'worth living,' or 'when you could bring children into the world and count on the future,' or simply 'in the good old days.' People didn't talk that way when I was young! The present was a glorious time! But they talk that way now. For the first time in man's history, man is desperate to escape the present. Our newsstands are jammed with escape literature, the very name of which is significant. Entire magazines are devoted to fantastic stories of escape - to other times, past and future, to other worlds and planets - escape to anywhere but here and now. Even our larger magazines, book publishers and Hollywood are beginning to meet the rising demand for this kind of escape. Yes, there is a craving in the world like a thirst, a terrible mass pressure that you can almost feel, of millions of minds struggling against the barriers of time. I am utterly convinced that this terrible mass pressure of millions of minds is already, slightly but definitely, affecting time itself. In the moments when this happens - when the almost universal longing to escape is greatest - my incidents occur. Man is disturbing the clock of time, and I am afraid it will break. When it does, I leave to your imagination the last few hours of madness that will be left to us; all the countless moments that now make up our lives suddenly ripped apart and chaotically tangled in time. Well, I have lived most of my life; I can be robbed of only a few more years. But it seems too bad - this universal craving to escape what could be a rich, productive, happy world. We live on a planet well able to provide a decent life for every soul on it, which is all ninety-nine of a hundred human beings ask. Why in the world can't we have it? 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