A quote from A Severe Mercy
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A quote from A Severe Mercy
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,
... See moreSheldon Vanauken • A Severe Mercy
Our time was filled, but in a strange way it did not seem to pass.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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.