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Time Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

39 Time quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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A person walking in the dark to a lit house illustrates how time can guide us toward comfort. Elizabeth talks about looking behind to find true visions and how small, undramatic moments can feel grounding. She also reflects on how aging brings rich experiences, even when life feels tough.

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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

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I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

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Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

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“Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.”

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I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.

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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

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“We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory,…

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“...what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of…

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“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise,…

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I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I…

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“You have so much love to give! But I feel like you’re all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, ‘Where…

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I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable…

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When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an…

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“There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion…

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“I don't think you've even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone,…

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“When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long…

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“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed…

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Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without…

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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond…

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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt…

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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard…

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When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is…

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“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's…

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“Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would…

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“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the…

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“there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you’ll stay in a place you’ve outgrown. When”

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The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them…

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“And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a…

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You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off…

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It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true…

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“I am so often struck by what we do not do, all of us. And I am also, now, so acutely aware…

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“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what…

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Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I…

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“You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And…

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“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true…

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“What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she’s not seen in such a…

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Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place…

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“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers…

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you…

“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I…

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone…

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love…

“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or…

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is…