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Quotes About Time

I have met with you, bird, too late, or if not, too worm and early
~ James Joyce
that was owl the God's clock it was
~ James Joyce
Life is many days. This will end.
~ James Joyce
He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso, in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fè più ardenti. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb.
~ James Joyce
The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
~ James Joyce
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I?
~ James Joyce
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
~ James Joyce
Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted.
~ James Joyce
When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone?
~ James Joyce
Always passing, the stream of life, which in the stream of life we trace is dearer than them all.
~ James Joyce
Life is too short to read bad books.
~ James Joyce
Somewhere, parently in the ginnandgo gap between antediluvious and annadominant the copyist must have fled the scroll.
~ James Joyce
The year returns. History repeats itself. Ye crags and peaks I'm with you once again. Life, love, voyage round your own little world.
~ James Joyce
The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future
~ James Joyce
Wait. Five months. Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound. Buzz. Buzz. But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms. I that sinned and prayed and fasted. A child Conmee saved from pandies. I, I and I. I.
~ James Joyce
We're as old as we feel
~ James Joyce
I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester.
~ James Joyce
Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.
~ James Joyce
Gerty Mc Dowell'a kur yap?p kalbini kazanacak olan adam?n tam bir erkek olmas? gerekiyordu. Ama bekliyordu, hâlâ birinin ona teklif etmesini bekliyordu, ayr?ca bu y?l art?k y?ld? ve yak?nda bitecekti. S.339
~ James Joyce
They are not to be thought away. Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind.
~ James Joyce
Of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.
~ James Joyce
The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space, in which I am not, and which has nothing to do with me; and the period of time in which it is my lot to live is so petty beside the eternity in which I have not been, and shall not be… And
~ James Joyce
And the time of dreaming dreams is over - as lover to lover, sweetheart, I come
~ James Joyce
A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.
~ James K. Morrow