“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Truly nothing matters but the present, because it is the only place where life can express itself.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.”— Neil Armstrong, amazon.com
“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”— Robert Walser, amazon.com
“What if there are a million versions of us, one for each decision we ever make, living perpendicular timelines that erupt out from every choice? A constant fractal that makes us who we are. What if dejà vu is the overlapping of ourselves, the passing over a crossroads we already came upon? Have I be…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“It's time we depart, it’s time we vanish again. Off into it all.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.”— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com
“It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Hospital time takes place in another dimension, in a subterranean sort of zone where the world outside feels unreal and remote, where it can feel like you’re wading through hip-high waves, salt water screwing up your vision and clogging your ears.”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.com
“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”— A.J. Darkholme, amazon.com
“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.…”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied. But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.”— Diamond Rio, youtube.com
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that…”— John Irving, amazon.com