Hourglass Quotes

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  • Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?

    Real   Ideas   Numbers  
  • Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

    Power   Sight   Black  
    Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.230, Hachette UK
  • If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  • Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

    Running   Past   Mind  
    Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.63, Ballantine Books
  • Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  • And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

    Running   Despair   Noise  
  • My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

    Strong   Clothes   Looks  
  • What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

    Men   Doe   Yardsticks  
  • Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
  • It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

    Long   Hourglass   Known  
    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

    Art   Latin   Book  
    "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.
  • I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

    "Wilfred's Fiona Gubelmann Talks Man Dogs, Red-Carpet Style, and the Evolution of Jenna" by Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. June 20, 2013.
  • This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

    Pain   Dust   Tree  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage
  • The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  • Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.

    Death   Horse   White  
  • The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.

    Running   Children   Men  
  • We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

    Running   Gone   Sand  
  • A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

    Mother   Selfless   Teeth  
    Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.67, Penguin
  • A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

    Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)
  • I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'

    Breakup   War   Thinking  
  • Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

    Girl   Real   Fall  
    FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014
  • I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.

    Weight   Body   Care  
  • I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.270, Zola Books
  • In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

    Fashion   Art   Kings  
    Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

    Reality   Wish   Flip  
  • Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  • The plus-size revolution that has been happening lately is incredible but it's also creating this "other" beauty standard in which you have to be an hourglass, you have to be super sexy and fierce about showing off your curves. That's quite frightening to me, and I don't fit in it, I don't want to fit it.

    Sexy   Creating   Curves  
    "Clem Wears: Beth Ditto New Collection". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.bonjourclem.com. February 15, 2016.
  • Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

    Song: Breathe, Album: Shine, 2008
  • One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

    Anchors   Church   Alive  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

    Thinking   Tasks   Necks  
    "The Essential Dale Carnegiec".
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