Time Quotes by Daphne du Maurier

“…but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence.”

— Daphne du Maurier

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part…

— Daphne du Maurier

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

— Daphne du Maurier

“You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”

— Daphne du Maurier

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of…

— Daphne du Maurier

“So death, Shelagh decided, was a moment for compliments, for everyone saying polite things about everybody else which they would not dream…

— Daphne du Maurier

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall…

— Daphne du Maurier

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I…

— Daphne du Maurier

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at…

— Daphne du Maurier

“It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Until the moment of that dismissal with its reason given, he had received out of anywhere—or was it out of nowhere in…

— Daphne du Maurier

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He was not staring at her anymore. He was still. He had gone. The moment of truth had vanished forever, and she…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Had I known, that last hour sitting there, talking and laughing about trivial things, that there was a clot forming like a…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give…

— Daphne du Maurier

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried…

— Daphne du Maurier

“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The voice told me that it was my father who was to blame. He was responsible for this moment, this business of…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“She stared at me curiously. Her voice dropped to a whisper. "Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He [Joss] lingered for a moment, looking down at her, and then he bent low and laid his fingers on her mouth.…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on…

— Daphne du Maurier

How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all…

— Daphne du Maurier

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular…

— Daphne du Maurier

We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“And all this, she thought, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has…

— Daphne du Maurier

“It was then that Maxim looked at me. He looked at me for the first time that evening. And in his eyes…

— Daphne du Maurier

“...somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will…

— Daphne du Maurier

“My complaint is universal, and has been so through the ages, an excuse for jest and hilarious laughter from earliest times, until…

— Daphne du Maurier