Lauren Groff Quotes

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Time stays, we go.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Time is numbered only to man.

Time means nothing to me.

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

The body is just a rooming house.

As an artist, as a person, I don't want to be here for just a little while.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.