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Time Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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A calculation of billions of years can sit on a fingertip and still feel overwhelming. Madeleine L'Engle reminds us that what we see is temporary, while unseen ideas stretch forever. She also notes that a frozen imagination can feel like time has stopped, keeping us from creating.

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I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

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We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

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“Do you know how lucky you are?” She smiled rather wryly. “Not most of the time.”

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For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

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Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

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“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”

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You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

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Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

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Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which…

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“Ah,” she said, “that’s ever so much better,” and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. “My stomach is…

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The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in…

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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought…

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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is…

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I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be…

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This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this…

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“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For…

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All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given…

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I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And…

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If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go…

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I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a…

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Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat…

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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought…

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When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened…

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Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and…

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“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the…

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“It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live…

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A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a…

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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because…

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If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend…

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“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves…

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“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought…

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“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to…

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We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

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Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to…

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“Remember, he hasn’t much imagination. Or, rather, it’s been frozen for a long while and hasn’t had time to thaw.”

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“Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.”

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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time…

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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…

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I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,…

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

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My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said…

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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