"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Time, Life, Clarity, Aging

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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

Age, History, Poetry, Circumstances

"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."

Man, Men, Science, God, Existence

"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Evil, Fascism, Victims

"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."

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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

Life, Exercise, Generosity, Poor

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."

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