Andreas Vlach
@vlach
Andreas Vlach
“Time moves in spirals, not in straight lines. We believe we have left something behind and find ourselves encountering it again, closer or further from the center, but always the same thing.”
Joseph Roth (paraphrased from his essays on time and memory)
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
“Every cigarette I smoked was accompanied by a solemn vow never to smoke again. I smoked my last cigarette hundreds of times.”
— Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”
— The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
“ To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.”
— The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges
17 quotes that permanently changed how I think about time
I think we were meant to live slower than this. to take afternoon walks. to watch things grow. to fall asleep reading. to be bad at things and still do them. we weren’t designed for constant achievement. we were meant for the ordinary. the parts you never talk about but would miss the most.
Dr. Dominic Ngsubstack.com
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