“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There is a reason God limits man's days.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“You had many more years,” he said.
“I didn’t want them.”
“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
“What’s that?”
“Hope.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“The length of your days does not belong to you.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
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“Sometimes it’s the place where you grew up that says, You belong to me. No matter how long I’ve been away, when I come back to New York City in a taxi over the Triborough Bridge and the afternoon sun shifts off the steel skyline and blinds me, I feel it. In the heavy July of privet tinged with sea salt on the East End of Long Island, where I spent nearly every summer until I was twenty and many since, I know it. And in an empty theater, with the ghost light on and the darkness, warm and velvet like a dinner jacket my father once wore, it’s mine.”
― Christina Haag, quote from Come to the Edge
“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“It is sometimes said that 'light is a form of wave-motion', but this is misleading, for the light which we immediately see, which we know directly by means of our senses, is not a form of wave-motion, but something quite different—something which we all know if we are not blind, though we cannot describe it so as to convey our knowledge to a man who is blind. A wave-motion, on the contrary, could quite well be described to a blind man, since he can acquire a knowledge of space by the sense of touch; and he can experience a wave-motion by a sea voyage almost as well as we can. But this, which a blind man can understand, is not what we mean by light: we mean by light just that which a blind man can never understand, and which we can never describe to him.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from The Problems of Philosophy
“the best conversations wandered and twisted around. Sometimes you learn more that way than traveling in straight lines. ”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Nemesis
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