Saboura

“The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bailiffs realized they had to do something but the less they understood what it was.”
― Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

“تا تو با منی زمانه با منست
بخت و کام جاودانه با منست
تو بهار دلکشی و من چو باغ
شور و شوق صد جوانه با منست”
― هوشنگ ابتهاج

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Then give me back that time of pleasures, While yet in joyous growth I sang,— When, like a fount, the crowding measures Uninterrupted gushed and sprang! Then bright mist veiled the world before me, In opening buds a marvel woke, As I the thousand blossoms broke, Which every valley richly bore me! I nothing had, and yet enough for youth— Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give, unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,— O, give me back my youth again!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust