Harold Schweizer > Quotes

“Stories allow us to pretend that there is a cure for waiting.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“The money economy changed modern life to “evaluating, weighing, calculating and reducing of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“Between hope and resignation, boredom and desire, fulfillment and futility, waiting extends across barren mental and emotional planes.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“The person who waits is out of sync with time, outside of the “moral” and economic community of those whose time is productive and synchronized.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“Central to the idea of narrative from Homer to Hollywood, waiting is a temporal region hardly mapped and badly documented.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“Lacking the charms of boredom or desire, waiting is neither interestingly melancholic nor despairingly romantic.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting

“We experience time only then when it is not exactly calibrated to the will, when it is other than, or in conflict with, how we thought time should run.”
― Harold Schweizer, On Waiting