Hourglass Quotes
45 quotes by 44 authors
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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
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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
— Anna Nalick
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
— Rachel Roy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
— Jules Renard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
44 authors contributed a total of 45 Hourglass Quotes, led by these top contributors: