Time Quote by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

“Though nothing much had happened, he felt that he had seen and experienced enough that day - thus securing his tomorrow. For today he…

— Peter Handke

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“When he woke the next morning, or rather late in the next day, after his night’s work, he was no longer able to tell…

— Anthony Trollope

“[…] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep […], knowing he was unfair […], knowing all these things but unable to stop…

— Steven Erikson

“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life…

— Marie Darrieussecq

“The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as…

— H.G. Wells

“the dark young man had been yawning and looking aimlessly out of the window, impatiently expecting the end of the journey. He was preoccupied,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“The case was becoming serious. It was now past midnight. The hotels at Shiplake and Henley would be crammed; and we could not go…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard