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3. “The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”
Marcel Proust
Past, Memory, Future Motion, Temporal Flow, Nostalgic Transition, Time Perception
16. “Has my watch stopped? No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don’t look at them. Think of something else – anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.” Simone de Beauvoir Time Perception, Calm Reflections, Nervous Waiting, Life’s Flow, Emotional Focus, Mental Diversions
21. “Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.” Leonardo da Vinci Time Perception, Memory Power, Past and Present, Life Reflection, Swift Time
Time Perception Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”
Marcel Proust Past, Memory, Future Motion, Temporal Flow, Nostalgic Transition, Time Perception
16. “Has my watch stopped? No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don’t look at them. Think of something else – anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.”
Simone de Beauvoir Time Perception, Calm Reflections, Nervous Waiting, Life’s Flow, Emotional Focus, Mental Diversions
21. “Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
Leonardo da Vinci Time Perception, Memory Power, Past and Present, Life Reflection, Swift Time
