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Quotes About Time

while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world
~ Carson McCullers
But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay in the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.
~ Carson McCullers
It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.
~ Carson McCullers
To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
~ Carson McCullers
But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay on the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.
~ Carson McCullers
Again, the terror, the acknowledgment of wasted years and death. Valentin, responsive and confident, still nestled in his arms. His cheek touched the soft cheek and felt the brush of the delicate eyelashes. With inner desperation he pressed the child close - as though an emotion as protean as his love could dominate the pulse of time.
~ Carson McCullers
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
~ Carson McCullers
This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have nothing to do with time going by at all.
~ Carson McCullers
In the beginning of dog days Frankie's cat had gone away. And the season of dog days is like this: it is the time at the end of the summer when as a rule nothing can happen - but if a change does come about, that change remains until dog days are over. Things that are done are not undone and a mistake once made is not corrected.
~ Carson McCullers
Aber die Erinnerung kommt nie von vorne auf einen zu – sie kommt seitlich um die Ecke.
~ Carson McCullers
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~ Carson McCullers
Ninguno de ellos sabía por qué estaban allí o lo que harían, pero sabían que tenían que esperar, y que la hora se acercaba
~ Carson McCullers
So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.
~ Carter Scholz
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.
~ Cary Grant
Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.
~ Caryl Phillips
Without attempting any systematic employment of time, and carrying it out, so far as they control circumstances, most women are rather driven along by the daily occurrence of life; so that, instead of being the intelligent regulators of their own time, they are the mere sport of circumstances.
~ Catharine Esther Beecher
WHO HAS HIS BIRTH DAY, HAS HIS BURIALL TOO; AS WE INTO THE WORLD COME, OUT WE GOE.
~ Catherine Aird
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
~ Catherine Anderson
Let youth pass, and no matter what opportunities presented themselves, the capacity to build the broad base required to support the structure of learning was gone.
~ Catherine Cookson
I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.
~ Cathie Pelletier
He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.
~ Cathie Pelletier
The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one bowl. The years of her life had been a made puzzle that one day gets unmade, the pieces all scattered.
~ Cathie Pelletier
She knew for certain there were all kinds of people who craved their youth, who would run like gazelles toward that fishhook of time, peeling off the years like old imagined skins.
~ Cathie Pelletier
looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to
~ Cathie Pelletier