Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

It's only forever... Not long at all.

Forever is made up of nows.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

Eternity - waste of time.

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked “TODAY”.

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.