Hourglass Quotes

45 quotes by 44 authors

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table. — Anna Nalick
If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself. — Rachel Roy
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the… — Vera Nazarian
I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my… — Ashley Graham
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's… — Frederick Lenz
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. — Jules Renard
My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous,… — Vivienne Westwood
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In… — Margaret Atwood
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like… — Audrey Niffenegger
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on… — Haruki Murakami
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out… — Chuck Palahniuk
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run… — Pablo Picasso

Who Wrote These Hourglass Quotes

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