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Quotes About Time

The first time you meet that some­one spe­cial, you can count on them one day be­ing dead and in the ground.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Time legitimizes the outrageous.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A year could pass be­tween her ask­ing a ques­tion and my an­swer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of ther­apy, and I'm still in about the same place. This prob­ably isn't some­thing we should cel­ebrate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Life is short. Death is forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Noth­ing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Echo Lawrence(Party Crasher): If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favourite saying was 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.' Shot Dunyun(Party Crasher): That's bullshit. Rant's favourite saying was 'Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We all live by different clocks and calendars.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We were all runing from something. Vaginoplasty. Aging. The future.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To all of you alive people walking around, taking your multivitamins and busy being Lutheran or getting colonoscopies, you need to invest in a good-quality, long-lasting wristwatch with day and date functions. Don't count on getting any cell phone reception in Hell, and don't think for a second you'll have the forethought to die with your charger cord in hand or even find yourself locked inside a rusted jail cell with a compatible electrical outlet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump back twenty years to the white house where I grew up with my father shooting super-8 movies of my brother and me running around the yard. Jump to present time with my folks sitting on lawn chairs at night, and watching these same super-8 movies projected on the white side of the same white house, twenty years later.
~ Chuck Palahniuk