Time Quotes by Don DeLillo

“The city is a device for measuring time.”

— Don DeLillo

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

— Don DeLillo

The future belongs to crowds.

— Don DeLillo

We need time to lose interest in things.

— Don DeLillo

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

— Don DeLillo

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

— Don DeLillo

“There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit. ”

— Don DeLillo

“Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.”

— Don DeLillo

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

— Don DeLillo

“How many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die?”

— Don DeLillo

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

— Don DeLillo

“He knew time and day of week and wondered when such scraps of data would begin to feel disposable.”

— Don DeLillo

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

— Don DeLillo

“We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they’ve…

— Don DeLillo

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails.…

— Don DeLillo

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not…

— Don DeLillo

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things.…

— Don DeLillo

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place',…

— Don DeLillo

“This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away…

— Don DeLillo

“Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.”

— Don DeLillo

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking,…

— Don DeLillo

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain…

— Don DeLillo

“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of…

— Don DeLillo

“There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and…

— Don DeLillo

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of…

— Don DeLillo

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design…

— Don DeLillo

“She liked to think. What did she like to think? She was having a dumb day and wanted to blame the fog.…

— Don DeLillo

“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana…

— Don DeLillo

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories…

— Don DeLillo

There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and…

— Don DeLillo

“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night…

— Don DeLillo

“It’s like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things…

— Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web.…

— Don DeLillo

“Crowds, Scott said. People trudging along wide streets, pushing carts or riding bikes, crowd after crowd in the long lens of the…

— Don DeLillo

“The time of dangling insects arrived. White houses with caterpillars dangling from the eaves. White stones in driveways. You can walk at…

— Don DeLillo

“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't…

— Don DeLillo

“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.…

— Don DeLillo

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

— Don DeLillo

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which…

— Don DeLillo

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock… Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

— Don DeLillo