Time Quotes by Ian McEwan

“The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution.”

— Ian McEwan

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

— Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

— Ian Mcewan

“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”

— Ian McEwan

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

— Ian Mcewan

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return”

— Ian McEwan

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

— Ian Mcewan

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love,…

— Ian Mcewan

“Lucy had told me more than once that the past was a burden, that it was time to tear everything down.”

— Ian McEwan

“We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in…

— Ian McEwan

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for…

— Ian Mcewan

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a…

— Ian Mcewan

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

— Ian Mcewan

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still…

— Ian Mcewan

“Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage…

— Ian McEwan

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them…

— Ian Mcewan

The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a…

— Ian Mcewan

“Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for…

— Ian McEwan

“He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered…

— Ian McEwan

It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had…

— Ian Mcewan

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.…

— Ian Mcewan

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a…

— Ian Mcewan

“At times this biography made him comfortably nostalgic for a verdant, horse-drawn, affectionate England; at others he was faintly depressed by the…

— Ian McEwan

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the…

— Ian Mcewan

“These were the months that shaped us.behind all our frustrations over all these years has been the wish to get back to…

— Ian McEwan

“That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster's cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them…

— Ian McEwan

“It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from…

— Ian McEwan

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of…

— Ian McEwan

“They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling,…

— Ian McEwan

“At moments like this, his misanthropy sensitized him to the people packed tight around him, no longer fellow travelers but adversaries, competitors…

— Ian McEwan

“A microscopic egg had failed to divide in time due to a failure somewhere along a chain of chemical events, a tiny…

— Ian McEwan

“We often told ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, talking, when we could be doing the same, lying down…

— Ian McEwan

“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the…

— Ian McEwan

“He's feeling a pull, like gravity, of the approaching TV news. It's a condition of the times, this compulsion to hear how…

— Ian McEwan

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a…

— Ian McEwan

“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck…

— Ian McEwan

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

— Ian Mcewan

“When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past.”

— Ian McEwan

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

— Ian Mcewan