"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

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"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Woody Allen, American Director

Time, Nature

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Time, Cause, Sleep, Wine

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Time,

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Time, Future, Present, Philosophy

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Time, Childhood, Homesickness

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"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

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Time, Choice, Priority, Life

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Time, Life, Existence, Flow

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Time, Decision, Live, Responsibility

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

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"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

"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."

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country."

"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."