Appreciate Quote by Samuel Beckett

“Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires…

— Marcel Proust

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire…

— Samuel Butler

“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal,…

— C.S. Lewis

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

“Once you are able to move beyond the concept of time, so too will you move beyond having any judging or condemning thoughts or…

— Timothy Moran

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace

We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again…

— Russell Peters

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name…

— Emile Durkheim

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

— Anonymous

“We all know that the inevitability of time is a shadow against our lives, a creeping knife, and yet by living fully we can…

— Sophie Crothers

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your…

— Diane Lane

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness…

— William Cowper