Unstuck In Time Quotes & Sayings

Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being - at my expense. — Emil M. Cioran

Unstuck her in time, day-sleeping in her bedroom. How old was she? Seven, seventeen, twenty-seven? Dusk or dawn? Couldn't tell by the light outside. Checked her phone. Evening. The house silent, her mother probably asleep. Out through the smell of her grandfather's fifty years of National Geographic, shelved in the hall. — William Gibson

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things. — Don DeLillo

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet? — Kurt Vonnegut

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time. — Lindy Booth

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. — Dorothy Day

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture. — Martha Graham

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. — Cecil Frank Powell

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. — Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut was talking," I say today, "about the psychic effects of trauma." There's a sentence of Alice Miller's looping in my mind, about grandiose people and depressives, Narcissus and Echo: "Neither can accept the truth that this loss or absence of love has already happened in the past, and that no effort whatsoever can change this fact." It's the main thing I've learned from reading all this psychology: the future is always trying to feel like the past. When it does, it feels like selfishness, hurt, loss at the hands of others. The trick is to let it empty. Maybe this is another way to come unstuck in time. — Kristin Dombek

Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious - every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men. — Ludwig Von Mises

To do the same again and again with the same gain not going far and not going somewhere else, it's call stupidy or let's stop the insult and start with an open start. It means you have stuck in the time, for god sake a lot of people get there and hard get out. — Deyth Banger