Marking Time Quotes

• What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

  John Boorman

  Sex, Passion, Self

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• El tiempo nos marca mientras nosotros marcamos el tiempo.

  Theodore Roethke

  Death, Suicide, Mark

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.188, Copper Canyon Press

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• I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

  Greg Lake

  Life, Creativity, Want

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• El tiempo es una relación que tenemos con el resto del universo; o más exactamente, somos uno de los relojes, que mide un tipo de tiempo. Los animales y los extraterrestres pueden medirlo de otra manera. Incluso puede que un día cambiemos nuestra forma de marcar el tiempo y abramos nuevos ámbitos de experiencia, en los que un día de hoy será un millón de años.

  George Zebrowski

  Animal, Years, One Day

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• We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

  Erich Fromm

  Wisdom, Religious, Fun

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• Mountain, mountain, mountain,
  marking time. Each
  nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
  redefinition of
  horizon.

  Denise Levertov

  Wall, Mountain, Horizon

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Amigos míos, lo hicimos. No solo marcamos el tiempo, marcamos la diferencia. Hicimos (a América) más fuerte - hicimos (a América) más libre - y la dejamos en buenas manos. En definitiva, no está mal. Nada mal. Y así, adiós. Que Dios os bendiga. Y Dios bendiga a los Estados Unidos de América.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goodbye, Hands, Differences

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

  Tim Finn

  Ocean, Healing, Passion

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