Ruth Ozeki Quotes

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?

Time is the life of the soul.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

I am; I was. I want to be.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Time is the substance of which we are made

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.