Hourglass Quotes

• Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

  Socrates

  Fall, Dust, Sand

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Tasks, Necks

  "The Essential Dale Carnegiec".

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Gone, Sand

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• I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Like You, Sand

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.17, Random House

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• Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?

  Patrick Madrid

  Real, Ideas, Numbers

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

  Anna Nalick

  Tables

  Song: Breathe, Album: Shine, 2008

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• I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

  Anne Fortier

  Reality, Wish, Flip

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• The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.

  Vera Nazarian

  Running, Children, Men

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• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Despair, Noise

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• The hourglass runs low.

  Christopher Pike

  Running, Lows

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Chain Letter: Chain Letter; The Ancient Evil”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sand, Ends, All The Best

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

  Ben Shapiro

  Running, Depressing, Hurt

  Ben Shapiro (0101). “And We All Fall Down”, p.55, Creators Publishing

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

  Paula McLain

  Running, Past, Mind

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

  Ryan Winfield

  Running, Fall, Moments

  Ryan Winfield (2014). “Jane's Melody: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.

  Ashley Graham

  Weight, Body, Care

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• One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

  Margaret Atwood

  Anchors, Church, Alive

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

  Rachel Roy

  Love Myself, Ifs

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• It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long, Known

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Firstly, there no such person as Death.
  Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
  Third, he doesn't exist either.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Horse, White

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• Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Filling Up, Half

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Physicians, Scythes, Sometimes

  Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)

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