Quote by Alessandro Baricco Download Open image ““And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.”” — Alessandro Baricco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“But now, now he needed to let himself rest when it came time to rest, and to move on when it came time to… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death.… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, držeći nedoličnom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uočljivo je kako takvi ljudi… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there’s really nothing more to say.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Uvijek me fascinirao taj fenomen sa slikama. Stoje na zidu godinama, a onda, bez ikakvog povoda, ama baš ikakvog padnu, tras, padnu dole. Vise okačene o ekser, niko ih i ne pipne, ali one u jednom trenutku, tras, padnu dole, kao kamen. U savršenoj tišini, dok je sve oko njih nepomično, ni muha da proleti, a one, tras. Ne postoji… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share
“Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veličanstveno osećanje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a mahogany box, lifts the lid, lets the letter fall inside, open and unaddressed. In the box are hundreds of identical envelopes, open and unaddressed. He thinks that somewhere in the world he will meet a woman… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“He said it softly, because he didn’t believe, ever, that the truth was good for anything.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
