Lawrence Durrell Quotes

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Age affects how people experience time.

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

I would like to warn you against the mistake that causes people to advance the hands of their clocks, thinking that thereby they are hastening the passage of time

When I was a child, Sunday afternoons felt like they could last a week or a month. Increasingly, as I get older, time is going so, so fast.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

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

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

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.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.