A Quote by Emily Dickinson

Forever is made up of nows.

Emily Dickinson

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Forever Made Up

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Emily Dickinson
American - Poet
December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

Forever is comprised of nows.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of Nows? 'Tis not a different time? Except for Infiniteness? And Latitude of Home

Emily Dickinson

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

John Green

I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Nicholas Evans

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Kij Johnson

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

Emily Dickinson

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

H. G. Bissinger

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

Rebecca Stead

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

William Shakespeare

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Sue Halpern

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.