Lost Time Quotes

“We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Lost love weighs heavier than lost time.”
― Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .the bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .maybe he was sick.”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

“I miss the floral scent of her hair, the perfume that barely masked the underlying truth of what she was. She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn. And lilac. When she held me to her, lilac was what I smelled first.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as its primary cause a disordered love of the crowd, which so far overruled every other feeling that, not being able to win, when he goes out, the admiration of his hall-porter, of the passers-by, of the cabman whom he hails, he prefers not to be seen by them at all, and with that object abandons every activity that would oblige him to go out of doors.”
― Marcel Proust, Within A Budding Grove, Part 1

“Done with the whole dark
& the insect dirge
under blue lit lamps.
Done trying to remember

June, first stars & August
when I was Penelope
when I was Eurydice
when July was missing

& I was my own dull shade.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“I'm sorry for the rabbit hole I'm about to introduce you to.”
― Cat Voleur, Revenge Arc

“After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.”
― Steven Herrick, Cold Skin

“Nothing or no one is going to rescue you from your current situation. You must take control of your own well-being and forge your own path to happiness and fulfillment.”
― Germany Kent

“By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me.”
― Ansul Noor

“Money can always be gained; lost time can never be recovered.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The worst thing you can do is make money at the expense of losing your time.”
― J.R. Rim

“But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—'

'By time traveling—'

'Please, please don't call it that. If a human were to violate causality, the experience from her point of view would be similar. You would act while in the past, but not be able to recall your actions later, because that period of time for you would be lost between histories: the old one you left and the new one to which you would return. It would exist outside of the normal course of events. It would be, in a very real sense, lost time.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“Child, don't wait until it's too late. Lost time is lost forever.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“The past folds accordion-like into the present. Different media have different event horizons—for the written word, three millennia; for recorded sound, a century and a half—and within their time frames the old becomes as accessible as the new. Yellowed newspapers come back to life. Under headings of 50 Years Ago and 100 Years Ago, veteran publications recycle their archives: recipes, card-play techniques, science, gossip, once out of print and now ready for use. Record companies rummage through their attics to release, or re-release, every scrap of music, rarities, B-sides, and bootlegs. For a certain time, collectors, scholars, or fans possessed their books and their records. There was a line between what they had and what they did not. For some, the music they owned (or the books, or the videos) became part of who they were. That line fades away. Most of Sophocles' plays are lost, but those that survive are available at the touch of a button. Most of Bach's music was unknown to Beethoven; we have it all—partitas, cantatas, and ringtones. It comes to us instantly, or at light speed. It is a symptom of omniscience. It is what the critic Alex Ross calls the Infinite Playlist, and he sees how mixed is the blessing: "anxiety in place of fulfillment, and addictive cycle of craving and malaise. No sooner has one experience begun than the thought of what else is out there intrudes." The embarrassment of riches. Another reminder that information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“It’s lost time that matters, the time between time, the moments when you forget time and things just happen.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“At long last we have arrived... In the land of the lost, where we all belong.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“Not a day has gone by, he said. Poor Jos. Days had gone by for me. It wasn't that I had forgotten about him, I always knew that he was out there. It just stopped seeming to matter. I was already dead. I had already moved on into this afterlife. I was someplace that he could never follow, nor would I want him to. Poor Jos. All this time, and he has been the one trapped.”
― Ashley Newell, Freakhouse

“Since I've been gone- I feel lost!”
― jmemo

“The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“For all summer I closed the drapes, I shut the glass windows and painted them black.
So when winter came I break the glass, I draw the drapes apart and let the sunlight come in.
I often do the right things a little too late.
I often let in sunshine after the sun has set.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“These legends,' murmured Pizarro, 'which of us can say if they're true or not? So many memories come to as though from out of the fog. Sometimes I wake up in the morning convinced that I'm in my village in my beloved Extramadura, making a bell, absolutely sure that that's what I've done all my life. Then I remember where I am, and what I've seen, and I become old again.”
― Antoine B. Daniel, Incas: The Light of Machu Picchu

“Time always has a way of showing what is important to us.
A smile, a hug, gentle words of I miss you, I love you.
Do not let time pass by without expressing how you really feel.
Moments do not stay here forever,
They fly away like the wind.”
― Mimi Novic, Brilliance of Dawn

“I have no next time, each moment is unique, different from every other moment, and many are wasted by my own indolence.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“My wife. My obsession. The only fucking friend I’ve ever had and the only woman I’ll ever love in my limited time on this earth." - Luca Lancaster”
― Petra Leigh Davies, Marrow Deep

“We are ahead of our time in terms of wasting time.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You can't reclaim lost time, but you can seize missed opportunities.”
― Jennifer Pierre

“Parfois, j'ai le sentiment que l'on m'a volé du temps. Ce temps passé à tenter de me fondre dans le monde hétéro sans comprendre le mien.”
― Élodie Font, Coming In