"We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing"
4
"If you flipped a switch in the back of your brain, you could watch a second go by like the frames of a movie. Once you figured out what would be happening ten frames later, you could take whatever steps you needed to turn the situation to your advantage. All at a subconscious level. In battle, you couldn't count on anyone who didn't understand how to break down time."
4
"Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
6
"It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time."
4
"In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away."
4
"However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads."
4
"Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start."
4
"It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature."
3
"Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail."
3
"Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion."
4
"I am tarred and feathered with Time."
4
"As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush."
4
"The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh."
3
"the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives"
3
"Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like."
4
"My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth had that happened? The realization made me want to sit down on the stairs and cry. It seemed to signify something terrible about the world: something that couldn't - or mustn't- be put into words. And I could see, looking down into her startled, anxious face, that my mother felt exactly the same way."
3
"A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that."
4
"As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done."
4
"I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge."
4
"I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore."
4
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