Centre Quote by Robert Musil

“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human…

— Virginia Woolf

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn…

— Robert Musil

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts…

— Clarence John Laughlin

“Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer…

— Laura Whitcomb

“... Suppose these hours are composed of ourselves, So that they become an impalpable town, full of Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound. Sounding in…

— Wallace Stevens

“Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room…

— Gregory David Roberts

“remember the vertiginous sense of time within time within time, and the whole host of heaven trying on, blending, and hurting the innumerable hues…

— Amos Oz

“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone…

— H.G. Wells

“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up people like…

— Anne Lamott

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood…

— Fritz Leiber

“Realization: We render time by stitching together moments--flipping pages in the book of consciousness presents a continuous stream. Our senses too slow to realize…

— David David Katzman