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- And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before…
- When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost…
- Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time,…
- She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a…
- And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long…
- . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
- Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt…
- Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because…
- That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
- In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.…
- If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made…
- All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the…
- When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind…
- There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't…
- I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
- Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago.…
- But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and…
- I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
- I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside…
- You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I…
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani