A quote from A Severe Mercy
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A quote from A Severe Mercy
When we are disappointed by a pleasure which we have been expecting and which comes, the disappointment is be. cause we were expecting the future. And as soon as it is there, it is the present. We want the future to be there with. out ceasing to be future. This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and, although nothing does, we continue inside that dream.
Hisham Matar • My Friends: A Novel
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it—how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren’t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion,
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