Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

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

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

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.

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

In music the present is extended.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

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.

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.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Time is an illusion anyway. You can create as much time as you want.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.