"I had forgotten: this is what it feels……" — Charles Yu
"I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process."
—
Charles Yu
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by Charles Yu
Charles Yu has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one…
-
This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you…
-
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required…
-
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who…
-
Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her,…
-
I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next…
-
It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it…
-
Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed.…
-
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful…
-
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
-
I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's…
-
I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always…
See all 35 quotes by Charles Yu »
More Abruptly Quotes
This quote is filed under Abruptly Quotes,
one of 75 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
-
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population…
— Ernst Mayr
-
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time,…
— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
-
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as…
— Frederick Soddy
-
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate…
— Barack Obama
-
MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television…
— Conan O'Brien
-
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
— Wyndham Lewis
-
We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise.…
— Esther Hicks
-
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and…
— Sergio Leone
-
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
— Andrew Solomon
-
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,
— Andrew Solomon
-
Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
See all 75 Abruptly Quotes »