Anne Carson Quotes

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.

It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

What goes up must come down.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

When it's your time, it is your time.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

A tree falls the way it leans.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

You can delay but you can't deny.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.

Love, too, was just a question of time

Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.