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“A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.”

Men Time Born Birth Rivers Ships Breasts Wanderers

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

Giving Light Night Time Birth Graves Instant Gleam Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”

“Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.”

Knows World Life Time Growth Secret Forever Birth Draws All Things Universal Tension Rebirth Magician Fluid Eagerness

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

Giving Done Enough Light Night Time Dies Born Birth One Day Blind Graves Dumb Instant Deaf Gleam Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”

Time Birth Nostalgia Rejection

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.”

World Time Birth Kissing Circles Handshake

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.”

Love Time Subjects Birth Charity Bones Wit Desert Envious Friendship Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.”

Dream Age Time Dying Birth

Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?”