Claire Messud Quotes

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Time flies when you are anxious!

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

In music the present is extended.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.