Deus-ex-machina Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“These were the first moments of a new existence, a strange one in which she already glimpsed the element of timelessness that would surround…

— Paul Bowles

“Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian Billiards as once he used to play…

— Anthony Powell

“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can’t stop our movement…

— Ray Dalio

“I mused that time is not only a river, but a river that constantly breaks its banks so you must flee from it as…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look…

— Milan Kundera

“As we are whiling away days of idleness, time may flow rashly through the screen of our thoughts and veil the relevance of individual…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

— Margaret Atwood

“You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But there's a…

— Alastair Reynolds

“When I look back, no matter how hard I try I can see clear break between one phase and another. It is a seamless…

— John Banville

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands.…

— Anonymous

“Time was a funny thing... Instead of marching in at a measured pace, it seemed to flow like a river. Quiet days pooled together,…

— Thea Harrison

“Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an…

— Bryant McGill