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#1

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

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#2

“Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
― Woody Allen

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#3

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time

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#4

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN

tags: absence, existence, fear, hurt, love, risk

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#5

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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#6

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: idleness, time, wasting-time

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#7

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: time, timelessness, today, tomorrow, yesterday

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#8

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: change, life, time

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#9

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
― T.S. Eliot.

tags: illusion, life, time

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#10

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

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#11

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

tags: time

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#12

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: future, passage-of-time, time

886 likes

#13

“I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.”
― Robert Frost, Birches

tags: brevity, love, nature, time, youth

393 likes

#14

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

tags: life, time, wasting-time

572 likes

#15

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: aging, impatience, time, wisdom

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#16

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

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#17

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity

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