Sarah Dessen Quotes

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Time is long but life is short.

A day is a miniature eternity.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

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