Ellen Glasgow Quotes

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

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

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?

Only the present moment contains life.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

For whatever you live is life.

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

Life only avails, not the having lived.

This dance is the joy of existence.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

Life is available only in the present moment.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.