Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

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

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

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.

One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

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

Time can tick when there is no clock.

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.

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

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

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.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

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.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them