Time Quotes by David Mitchell

“Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.”

— David Mitchell

“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.”

— David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

— David Mitchell

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

— David Mitchell

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

— David Mitchell

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

— David Mitchell

“We all of us have less time than we think, Ed.”

— David Mitchell

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

— David Mitchell

“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ”

— David Mitchell

Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived.

— David Mitchell

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

— David Mitchell

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your…

— David Mitchell

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

— David Mitchell

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we…

— David Mitchell

“Funny, thinks Milton. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”

— David Mitchell

“He lights another match to see if it's a time worth getting up for: 4:05. No. An inbetween hour.”

— David Mitchell

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind…

— David Mitchell

“I'm shoutin' back more'n forty long years at myself, yay,...Oy, list'n! Times are you're weak 'gainst the world! Times are you can't…

— David Mitchell

“One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all…

— David Mitchell

“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then…

— David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely…

— David Mitchell

“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done…

— David Mitchell

“No wonder it's all such a fucking mess. I divided up my possible futures, put them into separate accounts, and now they're…

— David Mitchell

I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the…

— David Mitchell

“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the…

— David Mitchell

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes…

— David Mitchell

“As my host slept I had time to wonder where I had been since Suhbataar shot my previous host. Had I hallucinated…

— David Mitchell

“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their…

— David Mitchell

“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled…

— David Mitchell

“Ayrs let long moments fall away. ‘You’re young, Frobisher, you’re rich, you’ve got a brain, and by all accounts you’re not wholly…

— David Mitchell

“The clock’s pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner…

— David Mitchell

“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a…

— David Mitchell

“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective…

— David Mitchell

“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.…

— David Mitchell

“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ”

— David Mitchell

“I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.”

— David Mitchell

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.

— David Mitchell

“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.”

— David Mitchell

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

— David Mitchell

“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.”

— David Mitchell