“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
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